Accessing exported variables in DLL with dlsym().

[Andrej Borsenkow]

Sorry, folks, it was my fault. I went blind :-(((

>
> if you can rebuild the DLL from source, you may do what TCL/TK
> did years ago due to this Win* deficiency: Add simple wrapper
> functions which just return the pointer to one of your variables.
>

> > foo() {
> >     char *bar;
             ^^^^^
nonsense; should be ``char **bar'' and

> >     void *libbar;
> >
> >     libbar = dlopen ("libbar.dll", 0);
> >     bar = dlsym (libbar, "bar");
> >     puts (bar);

of course ``puts (*bar);''

A beg your pardon for this noice.

BTW it looks, like it works even if variable is not declared with
dllexport ...

-andrej


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