Re: Patch to allow make to load plugins that add new functions.

[Daniel Herring]

On Fri, 6 Apr 2012, David Boyce wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 2:59 AM, Tim Murphy <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > I was thinking of marking this feature as "experimental" in the first
> > > release (in the documentation), just to be more clear on expectations.
> >
> > Very very much so - there are many platforms to support anyhow and
> > when someone eventually tries plugins on them we might see new
> > problems so better to let it take time to mature.
>
> Apropos of this, the Apache Portable Runtime has a nice abstraction
> over dlopen and LoadLibrary. Assuming they're license-compatible, it
> might be worth looking into borrowing that logic for this feature.

Along those lines, libtool also has libltdl.  I've never really used 
either system.  (Guilty of rolling yet another custom one.)

- Daniel