Shared libraries under linux

[alexhairyman]

On Tuesday, 17 April 2012 at 07:28:14 UTC, Jens Mueller wrote:
> alexhairyman wrote:
>> On Tue, 17 Apr 2012 02:46:28 +0200
>> "Sven-Hendrik Haase" <sh at lutzhaase.com> wrote:
>> 
>> > On Tuesday, 17 April 2012 at 00:41:46 UTC, alexhairyman 
>> > wrote:
>> > > Just a tip for everybody, but Under Linux, you can do a 
>> > > lot with the Linker commands you know those -L ones, 
>> > > besides being able to link with shared, you can also 
>> > > specify where the ELF binary will look to find your D 
>> > > shared library, by using -L-r which embeds a search path 
>> > > in your ELF binary, handy for updateable libraries, or a 
>> > > plugin system. I have a complete example somewhere on my 
>> > > laptop if anyone is interested. This is a native feature 
>> > > of ld so it should work almost anywhere.
>> > 
>> > For a plugin system, wouldn't you use dlopen and link to dl?
>> > 
>> > Also, you might as well use LD_LIBRARY_PATH and 
>> > rpath-stripped libs/bins instead which seems like the 
>> > cleaner solution to me.
>> 
>> True, that was an excited blurb of misinformation I gave 
>> there, but
>> rpath keeps you from having to use LD_LIBRARY_PATH which would 
>> require
>> you to add a script to first set, then call the application, 
>> and while
>> it is not much of a burden, it makes things a little bit 
>> easier to
>> use. And is there a way to use libdl in a "D-ish" way? I 
>> remember the
>> Old c++ way being a bit sloppy but not at all bad, simply 
>> requiring
>> you to create a function that returned a class (if my memory 
>> decides
>> to work).And the DDl project is dead for now, and shows little 
>> hope of
>> revival. If someone could point me in the direction of a 
>> similar
>> library I would very much appreciate it! And yes, the plugin 
>> system
>> would be nearly impossible (if not outright)
>
> Does this http://jkm.github.com/ddl/ddl.html work for you? I 
> welcome any
> kind of feedback.
>
> Jens
O_o YES! Will definitely check this out!