Re: [Caml-list] Byte code and dynamic linking of C libraries

["Nicolas Cannasse" <warplayer@free.fr>]

> I've got some code that dynamically links in a C library.  The code works
> just fine when I compile to native code, but blows up when I compile to
> bytecode.  Just to be clear, the dynamic linking I'm doing happens
> entirely on the C side:  I've got a c library that is linked in
> statically, and the dlopen and dlclose calls all happen within that C
> library.  When I try this trick in bytecode, I get a segfault.
>
> So, any ideas as to what I need to do to make dynamic linking and byte
> code to play nicely together?

Is the C library you're dynlinking is using Caml API ?
I got such problems, because when linking (under windows) to ocamlrun.lib,
your C dll is referencing ocamlrun.dll wich is the caml api library for the
bytecode interpreter (before it was ocamlrun.exe but now it's a separate dll
so the custom mode works well since both the exe and the dll are using the
same code).
The solution I know is to link staticly all the C librairies in native code.
One other is that your dynlinked C library redirects its calls to the Caml
API through the C library which is loading it.

Regards,
Nicolas Cannasse

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