dsl

Portable macros for dynamic shared libraries.

This header declares some macros for working with dynamic shared libraries in a portable way (POSIX and Windows). On POSIX systems one should link with -ldl.

Macro prototypes

dsl_handle dsl_open(const char *filename);

Opens shared library filename and returns a new handle or NULL on error.

void *dsl_sym(dsl_handle handle, const char *symbol);

Returns a pointer to symbol in a shared library or NULL on error.

const char *dsl_error(void);

Returns a pointer to a human-readable string describing the most recent error or NULL if no errors have occurred since the last call to dsl_error().

int dsl_close(dsl_handle handle);

Closes a handle. Returns non-zero on error.

Defines

DSL_Posix

DSL_Windows

DSL_EXPORT

DSL_IMPORT

dsl_open(filename)

dsl_sym(handle, symbol)

dsl_error()

dsl_close(handle)

Typedefs

typedef void *dsl_handle