dynamic libraries not runtime loadable on linux after all? confused by lack of Posix implementation of rt_loadLibrary in dmain2.d

[J]

On Friday, 26 July 2013 at 20:21:43 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Friday, July 26, 2013 21:42:57 J wrote:
>> Is the implementation hiding on a different branch perhaps? Why
>> were folks saying it was done?
>
> No one said that it was done. We've only just added support for 
> creating
> shared libraries to link in with the most recent release, so 
> there's a good
> chance that more work will have to be done there. Much as it 
> may be related,
> loading a shared library at runtime is a whole other ball game, 
> and there
> definitely is a lot of work to be done there (particularly with 
> regards to the
> GC). We're starting to get proper shared library support, but 
> we definitely
> aren't done yet. We didn't even put anything about shared 
> library support in
> the 2.063 changelog because of how new it was.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

I got to slide 12 of http://dconf.org/talks/nowak.pdf Martin 
Nowak's DConf2013 talk, and it seemed to indicate that 
Runtime.loadLibary() support was "currently" available; perhaps 
that meant only on Windows.

Is there an open ticket I can follow the know how the Linux 
progress is coming?

Thanks.

J