Re: dlopen a.exe

[Chris Faylor <cgf at cygnus dot com>]

On Sun, Aug 06, 2000 at 08:45:17PM -0700, Brian D. Carlstrom wrote:
>This is from a while back, I haven't been on the list for a while, but
>I'm trying to upgrade a tool called scsh from cygwin-b20 and I came
>across this:
>
>Chris Faylor wrote: 
>> On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 11:32:36AM +0100, Jon Cook wrote:
>> > Can you use dlopen with the pathname set to 0 to open a.exe?
>> No.  
>> cgf
>
>huh? This used to work, and is required for my tool unless I want to
>totally rework it. I copied all sorts of crap with dlltool and gcc
>-Wl,scshvm.exp from the tcl port, as well as hacking my autocong
>configure script. 

Perhaps I misunderstood the question.  Take a look at the source code
for dlopen.  If you pass a NULL as the first parameter it returns a handle
to the current program, not an arbitrary program called "a.exe".

Regardless, you won't be able to retrieve anything with dlsym() unless
either the function/variable has been defined with the __declspec(dllexport)
attribute or you've included it in a linker .def file.

cgf

>This small program used to work. The mesage was old. Is there any way to
>do this now or am I going to have to stay with cygwin-b20 indefinitely?
>
>-bri
>
>#include <dlfcn.h>
>#include <stdio.h>
>fnord() 
>{ 
>  int i=42;
>}
>main() 
>{ 
>  void *self, *ptr1, *ptr2; 
>  self=dlopen(NULL,RTLD_LAZY);
>  if (self) { 
>    printf("foo\n");
>    ptr1=dlsym(self,"fnord"); 
>    ptr2=dlsym(self,"_fnord");
>    printf("ptr1 %x\n", ptr1);
>    printf("ptr2 %x\n", ptr2);
>    if(ptr1 && !ptr2) {
>      printf("bar\n");
>      exit(0); 
>    }
>    printf("qux\n");
>  } 
>  printf("baz\n");
>  exit(1); 
>} 

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