From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,476311ae1fc1d6fc X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-10-04 03:58:38 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!freenix!teaser.fr!newsfeed.stueberl.de!newspeer1-gui.server.ntli.net!ntli.net!newsfep4-winn.server.ntli.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: chris User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030925 Thunderbird/0.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: DLLs / shared objects References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2003 12:03:56 +0100 NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.98.236.164 X-Complaints-To: abuse@ntlworld.com X-Trace: newsfep4-winn.server.ntli.net 1065265118 81.98.236.164 (Sat, 04 Oct 2003 11:58:38 BST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2003 11:58:38 BST Organization: ntl Cablemodem News Service Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:209 Date: 2003-10-04T12:03:56+01:00 List-Id: kat-Zygfryd wrote: > I'd like to have a plugin system in my Ada program - > loading functions/procedures from dll's/so's unknown at compiletime, > but found by the app at runtime. All information I found concerned > only Windows DLLs and involved statically linking parts of the dynamic libs, > which is unacceptable. > Is there any way in Ada to do so? (GNAT 3.14p, x86 Windows/Linux) Try www.cyberdanx.co.uk and look for dlib. It's not high level but it does bind to linux library loading facilities, and might serve as the basis for a higher level binding.