On Wed, 21 Dec 2005, Pierre Ossman wrote:
When using ltdl on Windows to load plug-ins there is a problem with the name
mangling system. The info.name field is only set if libltdl finds a .la file.
Just the DLL won't do. The result is that symbols cannot be found becaus
libltdl looks for the plain name (without prefix).
The problem should be the same on all systems, so I'm guessing this is
intended behaviour. So I'm wondering what's the rationale?
It is intended that modules be loaded by specifying the name or path
to the module .la file. The reason for this is that the conventions
for naming libraries varies across systems and sometimes additional
dependencies need to be additionally loaded by libltdl because the
module DLL format does not support or adequately specify additional
dependencies. Windows in particular is a problem since several DLL
naming conventions have been used and libraries come in two parts.
So I suggest that the .la files be distributed along with the modules
themselves and that the name/path of the .la file be specified to
libltdl by the application.
Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
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GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
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