Beman Dawes wrote:
"Neal Becker" <ndbecker2@gmail.com> wrote in message news:d4m2lg$v21$1@sea.gmane.org...
Vladislav Lazarenko wrote:
Greetings, dear developers.
I have some simple idea to write platform independed library to provide users with ability to load DLL/SO files (i.e. to develop plugin system etc.). Is there any library in boost? I've found nothing. Maybe we need it? Let's discuss, I am interested in your comments. Thank you very much in advance.
Doesn't seem very boost-ish. I don't think everything that would be a useful c++ library belongs in boost.
I disagree - I think this library would be great for Boost, assuming the technical issues can be worked out.
The C++ committee has also indicated an interest in such a library. Particularly if it can somehow paper over difference like some systems exporting all symbols by default, and others exporting no symbols by default,
What do you mean? If a shared does not export any symbols, there's nothing you can do other than rebuilding it or modifying it to export something. Or you have portable __declspec(dllexport)? - Volodya