21 Nov
2007
21 Nov
'07
6:48 a.m.
On Tuesday 20 November 2007 21:57, james jwm-art net wrote:
I'm attempting to use dlsym to dynamically load a
ladspa plugin lib in
c++. I've found various web pages describing how to use dlsym in c++
but they do not seem entirely relevant to using ladspa (ie ladspa
plugins are mainly written in c) (??).
Are you wrapping your C++ code in the '#extern "C" {}' keyword? This is
necessary in order to keep the C++ compiler from mangling the names. A good
overview of how it all works (specific to Solaris, but good info for Linux as
well) can be found at:
http://developers.sun.com/solaris/articles/external_linkage.html
Cheers!
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