Re: Object.factory from shared libraries

[Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On 26/09/14 14:37, krzaq wrote:

I'd like to extend my program's functionality from plugins, that'd be
loaded by name (or not) as requested by the config file. Is it possible
to throw in a few dlls/sos implementing those new modules into a
directory and hope that they will be all loaded and available to
Object.factory in the main executable?

I hope I'm clear enough.


If you either enumerate all dynamic libraries in a directory, or a list 
from a config file, then use dlopen on all libraries. Then I think 
Object.factory should work. But dynamic libraries are basically only 
working on Linux.


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/Jacob Carlborg

Re: Object.factory from shared libraries

[krzaq via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Friday, 26 September 2014 at 14:14:05 UTC, Jacob Carlborg 
wrote:

On 26/09/14 14:37, krzaq wrote:
I'd like to extend my program's functionality from plugins, 
that'd be
loaded by name (or not) as requested by the config file. Is it 
possible
to throw in a few dlls/sos implementing those new modules into 
a
directory and hope that they will be all loaded and available 
to

Object.factory in the main executable?

I hope I'm clear enough.


If you either enumerate all dynamic libraries in a directory, 
or a list from a config file, then use dlopen on all libraries. 
Then I think Object.factory should work. But dynamic libraries 
are basically only working on Linux.


That would be satisfactory to me, except for the linux-only part.

In that case, I think I'll simply try to call filename() as the 
factory function in each library - that should work everywhere, 
right?

Re: Object.factory from shared libraries

[Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On 2014-09-26 16:24, krzaq wrote:


That would be satisfactory to me, except for the linux-only part.

In that case, I think I'll simply try to call filename() as the factory
function in each library - that should work everywhere, right?


Dynamic libraries only work properly on Linux. This has nothing to do 
with Object.factory.


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/Jacob Carlborg

Re: Object.factory from shared libraries

[Cliff via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Friday, 26 September 2014 at 15:45:11 UTC, Jacob Carlborg
wrote:

On 2014-09-26 16:24, krzaq wrote:

That would be satisfactory to me, except for the linux-only 
part.


In that case, I think I'll simply try to call filename() as 
the factory

function in each library - that should work everywhere, right?


Dynamic libraries only work properly on Linux. This has nothing 
to do with Object.factory.


What is the nature of D's so/dll support?  Or is there a page
describing it?