Re: Dynamic Linking (as in dlfcn.h for c)?

["François Godmé" <fgodme@bigfoot.com>]

Matt Corby a �crit :

> I am in the design stages of writing a program which must load shared libraries
> at run time.  It will need to load possibly several dozen to over a hundred
> shared libraries, depending on how many the user needs.  It is a real-time
> sound producing system, which means CORBA, etc. are ruled out for performance
> reasons.
>
> I have done a small amount of coding ( < 1000 lines) for the program already,
> and used the dlfcn.h and dl.so library (on red hat linux) to implement the
> plugin infrastructure using shared libraries.  Does Ada (i have GNAT 3.13p)
> have a clean way to implement this.  It would be preferable if the .so files
> that it loads can be in any language, but it is not a requirement.
>
> I could write an Ada binding to dlfcn.h, but i'm a beginner at Ada, and not too
> experienced with c either (most of my programming has been with x86 assembler)
> so i'm not sure if i could do it.  Also i would like it if there was an Ada way
> to do this.
>
> Thanks,
> Matt Corby (mattcorby@yahoo.com)

On Red Hat Linux and others RPM-based system, this problem is addressed by the RPM
package AdaPlugins that you can find at  www.gnuada.org.