Re: [Caml-list] Link a .so/.dll dynamically

["Stéphane Glondu" <steph@glondu.net>]

On 09/14/2011 06:42 PM, Romain Bardou wrote:
>>> Thanks, this solves the "native" part of my problem ! Now I need to
>>> figure out how to link this .so file.
>>
>> You mean, the equivalent of dllmylib.so? There is no such file in native
>> code: mylib.cmxs will contain the contents of mylib.cmxa and wrapper.o.
> 
> No I mean the driver DLL for which Mylib is the binding. File
> dllmylib.so is linked correctly, but binding.c includes api.h, which is
> implemented in api.so, so I need to link with api.so as well. The whole
> point of my original question is: how can I design the program such that
> this api.so is loaded dynamically, because the user may want to choose a
> different driver everytime, or even change driver during execution.

That would be a -cclib option passed to ocamlmklib. It embeds a -lXXX
option in the .cmxa that should be visible with a recent version of
ocamlobjinfo. You can check the result by running ldd on the .cmxs file.


Cheers,

-- 
Stéphane