>________________________________ > From: Jonas Maebe <jonas.ma...@elis.ugent.be> >To: Leonardo M. Ramé <martinr...@yahoo.com>; FPC developers' list ><fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org> >Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2013 12:40 PM >Subject: Re: [fpc-devel] LoadLibrary result > > > >On 30 May 2013, at 17:27, Leonardo M. Ramé wrote: > >> I'm using a list of objects that each needs to load a shared Library >> (written in C). As some operations inside the library are slow, I've created >> a TThread to do multiple operations simultaneously. >> >> As the library is not thread safe, I thought using "loadLibrary" will create >> a different "instance" after each load, but, as the TLibHandle resulting of >> that function is the same, I think the library is only loaded once. >> >> Is there a way to have different handles for each loadlibrary?. > >No, you can load a library only once per process. Loading it more than once is >not supported by any dynamic linker I know of, because it would result in >symbol clashes. >
Thanks Jonas, good to know that. I'll have to re-architect the library to avoid using globals... -- Leonardo M. Ramé http://leonardorame.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel