1 /* GMODULE - GLIB wrapper code for dynamic module loading
2 * Copyright (C) 1998 Tim Janik
4 * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
5 * modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public
6 * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
7 * version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
9 * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
10 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
11 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
12 * Library General Public License for more details.
14 * You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
15 * License along with this library; if not, write to the
16 * Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
17 * Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
21 * Modified by the GLib Team and others 1997-1999. See the AUTHORS
22 * file for a list of people on the GLib Team. See the ChangeLog
23 * files for a list of changes. These files are distributed with
24 * GLib at ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/.
34 #endif /* __cplusplus */
36 /* exporting and importing functions, this is special cased
37 * to feature Windows dll stubs.
39 #define G_MODULE_IMPORT extern
41 # define G_MODULE_EXPORT __declspec(dllexport)
42 #else /* !NATIVE_WIN32 */
43 # define G_MODULE_EXPORT
44 #endif /* !NATIVE_WIN32 */
48 G_MODULE_BIND_LAZY
= 1 << 0,
49 G_MODULE_BIND_MASK
= 0x01
52 typedef struct _GModule GModule
;
53 typedef const gchar
* (*GModuleCheckInit
) (GModule
*module
);
54 typedef void (*GModuleUnload
) (GModule
*module
);
56 /* return TRUE if dynamic module loading is supported */
57 gboolean
g_module_supported (void);
59 /* open a module `file_name' and return handle, which is NULL on error */
60 GModule
* g_module_open (const gchar
*file_name
,
63 /* close a previously opened module, returns TRUE on success */
64 gboolean
g_module_close (GModule
*module
);
66 /* make a module resident so g_module_close on it will be ignored */
67 void g_module_make_resident (GModule
*module
);
69 /* query the last module error as a string */
70 gchar
* g_module_error (void);
72 /* retrive a symbol pointer from `module', returns TRUE on success */
73 gboolean
g_module_symbol (GModule
*module
,
74 const gchar
*symbol_name
,
77 /* retrive the file name from an existing module */
78 gchar
* g_module_name (GModule
*module
);
81 /* Build the actual file name containing a module. `directory' is the
82 * directory where the module file is supposed to be, or NULL or empty
83 * in which case it should either be in the current directory or, on
84 * some operating systems, in some standard place, for instance on the
85 * PATH. Hence, to be absoultely sure to get the correct module,
86 * always pass in a directory. The file name consists of the directory,
87 * if supplied, and `module_name' suitably decorated accoring to
88 * the operating system's conventions (for instance lib*.so or *.dll).
90 * No checks are made that the file exists, or is of correct type.
92 gchar
* g_module_build_path (const gchar
*directory
,
93 const gchar
*module_name
);
97 #endif /* __cplusplus */
100 #endif /* __GMODULE_H__ */