Nathan Kurz wrote: > On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 10:22:42AM +0000, Robin Breathe wrote: >> I'm intrigued to know how you loaded the additional shared library with >> your sqlite3(1) shell... is it simply a case of linking another library >> to it post installation, and if so how do you register the user >> functions that library contains? > > Unfortunately it's not a capability that comes built in. I wrote a > simple patch to add 'pragma load_library(library)' that will > dynamically load a library and then call a register function in that > library. It's not complicated, but I presume my implementation is > Linux specific. But it wouldn't be hard to do for other platforms. > > The patch is attached, in case it helps you or anyone else. I think > this would be a useful feature to add to SQLite, but I can also see > how it might be considered feature creep. One might also need a > greater level of platform specific handling than used in the rest. > But if you are using Linux and need the capability, try the patch!
Nathan, That's great, a nice simple implementation. It doesn't look too desperately Linux specific, I see no reason it wouldn't work on *BSD/Solaris too - I shall test later. Robin -- Robin Breathe, Computer Services, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1865 483685 Fax: +44 1865 483073
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