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From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@acm.org>
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Subject: Re: load and use a ".o" file?
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lifetime n00b <anonymous@yahoo.com> writes:

> There is a main program loop already running, and there is a ".o"
> compiled object file (compiled with gnat) which *hasn't* been linked
> into the main program, but it has a procedure or function in it I want
> to call. 

You need to compile and link it into a "dynamically linked library"
(dll on windows, so (shared object) on Unix). Then you need to import
your OS's dynamic linking API (which may be done somewhere already),
and you're all set.

To get more specific, you need to say what OS you are on. And someone
else will have to reply; I've not actually done this as yet.

-- 
-- Stephe