Loading external modules..

dospro · Post by **dospro** » Sat May 27, 2006 3:32 pm

Hi. I have a question.
How can i load routines from other files, like if they were dlls?

In windows is using LoadLibrary(...) and GetProcAddress(....).
In KOS how can i make something like this?

BlackAura · Post by **BlackAura** » Sat May 27, 2006 10:09 pm

I don't think you really can. KOS used to have the ability to do that, but I think it may have decayed a bit.

Some of the code still seems to be there (have a look at kos/kernel/fs/elf.c, for example), but I don't know how well it'd work. It looks like you should be able to use the elf_load function to load an ELF file into memory, but I don't really know what you could do with it once you've loaded it.

semicolo · Post by **semicolo** » Sun May 28, 2006 10:50 am

what about dlopen/dlsym ?

dospro · Post by **dospro** » Sun May 28, 2006 12:04 pm

I will try them, and see how htey work.

BlackAura · Post by **BlackAura** » Mon May 29, 2006 3:23 am

semicolo wrote:what about dlopen/dlsym ?

They're Unix system calls. KOS is not Unix.

GPF · Post by **GPF** » Tue May 30, 2006 10:47 am

there was some example code on the dcdev maillist that dan wrote an example of doing that with the image loading libraries, i tried to make it work but it either there is some functions missing now or i was missing something.

Troy(GPF)