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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: dynamic linking at runtime Message-ID: <hastyD2xnx0.5pr@netcom.com> Keywords: GNU, dld, dynamic linking Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <717@boschrt.rt.bosch.de.bosch.de> <3g2itg$b8g@news-rocq.inria.fr> Date: Tue, 24 Jan 1995 23:29:24 GMT Lines: 26 In article <3g2itg$b8g@news-rocq.inria.fr> soulard@sor.inria.fr writes: >> Has anybody out there a working port of GNU's dld-3.2.4 to FreeBSD and/or >> NetBSD? > >Maybe you could use 'dlopen' and 'dlsym' instead. > > Herve Soulard. I second that ! I made simple modifications to STK which are now part of STK-2.1.5 to allow loading of dynamic modules -- works like charm. Also late one nite , I ported hre -- a character recognition X program from Sun which uses dynamic loadable modules for the recognition engines . At any rate both systems use dlopen and dlclose. Cheers, Amancio -- FREE unix, gcc, tcp/ip, X, open-look, netaudio, tcl/tk, MIME, midi,sound at freebsd.cdrom.com:/pub/FreeBSD Amancio Hasty, Consultant Home: (415) 495-3046 e-mail hasty@netcom.com