I'd like to extend my program's functionality from plugins, that'd be loaded by name (or not) as requested by the config file. Is it possible to throw in a few dlls/sos implementing those new modules into a directory and hope that they will be all loaded and available to Object.factory in the main executable?

I hope I'm clear enough.

On 26/09/14 14:37, krzaq wrote:
> I'd like to extend my program's functionality from plugins, that'd be
> loaded by name (or not) as requested by the config file. Is it possible
> to throw in a few dlls/sos implementing those new modules into a
> directory and hope that they will be all loaded and available to
> Object.factory in the main executable?
>
> I hope I'm clear enough.

If you either enumerate all dynamic libraries in a directory, or a list from a config file, then use dlopen on all libraries. Then I think Object.factory should work. But dynamic libraries are basically only working on Linux.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg

On Friday, 26 September 2014 at 14:14:05 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 26/09/14 14:37, krzaq wrote:
>> I'd like to extend my program's functionality from plugins, that'd be
>> loaded by name (or not) as requested by the config file. Is it possible
>> to throw in a few dlls/sos implementing those new modules into a
>> directory and hope that they will be all loaded and available to
>> Object.factory in the main executable?
>>
>> I hope I'm clear enough.
>
> If you either enumerate all dynamic libraries in a directory, or a list from a config file, then use dlopen on all libraries. Then I think Object.factory should work. But dynamic libraries are basically only working on Linux.

That would be satisfactory to me, except for the linux-only part.

In that case, I think I'll simply try to call filename() as the factory function in each library - that should work everywhere, right?

On 2014-09-26 16:24, krzaq wrote:

> That would be satisfactory to me, except for the linux-only part.
>
> In that case, I think I'll simply try to call filename() as the factory
> function in each library - that should work everywhere, right?

Dynamic libraries only work properly on Linux. This has nothing to do with Object.factory.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg

On Friday, 26 September 2014 at 15:45:11 UTC, Jacob Carlborg
wrote:
> On 2014-09-26 16:24, krzaq wrote:
>
>> That would be satisfactory to me, except for the linux-only part.
>>
>> In that case, I think I'll simply try to call filename() as the factory
>> function in each library - that should work everywhere, right?
>
> Dynamic libraries only work properly on Linux. This has nothing to do with Object.factory.

What is the nature of D's so/dll support?  Or is there a page
describing it?