Date: Fri, 3 May 1996 14:01:07 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: faulkner@asgard.bga.com (Boyd R. Faulkner) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dlopen and stuff Message-ID: <199605032101.OAA14806@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199605030038.TAA05473@utgard.bga.com> from "Boyd R. Faulkner" at May 2, 96 07:39:02 pm
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> I am trying to port regina (REXX) to FreeBSD. It supports loadable libraries > via the dlopen mechanism. I can dlopen the lib. dlsym returns the address > and runs but the lib code calls functions in a statically linked lib linked > to the executable calling the dynamic lib. This works on a sun. Can it work > here? You will need to dynamically link the common sublibrary, or the symbol space will not be exported. This is probably a bug in the way export symbol tables are handled for static code where dynamic linking is supported, if you want to examine the technicality. Specifically, there is not a shared export list for statically linked (but exported) symbols in objects which aren't shared. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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