Re: load and use a ".o" file?

[lifetime n00b <anonymous@yahoo.com>]

Stephen Leake wrote:
> .dll and .so files are designed to do _precisely_ what you are trying
> to do; they are the most efficient solution!

Well, not _precisely_, since a typical program using the .dll or .so 
files needs to know about those files when it is compiled itself, right? 
Maybe I wasn't clear on exactly what I need to do. The program that 
needs to load and use the object file is *already running* before the 
object file is compiled. This "main program" has no prior information 
about the data or routines which may be in the object file it is being 
told to load.

The "main program" operates much like a command prompt, and when 
(compile-file "hithere") is typed at the prompt, gnat will be called to 
compile an object file. Then when (load "hithere") is typed at the 
prompt, the object file is loaded and the data and/or functions in 
"hithere" are now available to the main program. Some additional 
information may have to be included in a supporting file produced at the 
same time the object file is produced, and this supporting file would be 
loaded when the object file is loaded.

That's the idea anyway. But I'm having a difficult time trying to figure 
out how to accomplish this seemingly straightforward task.