[linux-audio-dev] Todays changes to "LADSPA2" strawman

[Steve Harris]

On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 11:24:03PM +0200, Lars Luthman wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 22:13 +0100, Steve Harris wrote:
> > On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 04:50:13 -0400, Dave Robillard wrote:
> > > I guess the port things aren't a good justification for the creation
> > > parameters, you're right.  The question, then, is what is the
> > > recommended way for the host to provide functions to the plugin?  That's
> > > what Lars was originally seeking (and solves the above allocation
> > > problem as well)
> > 
> > I think that if it's provided as part of a HostFeature (so the plugin
> > knows it exists and what it's called) it can be obtained using the OS's
> > normal dynamic linking functions. I've not tried though.
> 
> Do you mean that the plugin should dlopen the host? Wouldn't that
> require some way to pass the path to the host program to the plugin (in
> which case you might as well pass a function pointer directly)?

I mean the linker should do it. If you dynamically build the plugin
against a stub library and the host exports something with the same ABI, I
/think/ the plugin should have the host's version of the function in its
namespace.

- Steve