Re: Runtime detection of EA support

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Dave Vasilevsky wrote:
> On 7/4/07, Denis Corbin <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I am not aware of a portable way to dynamically load a
>> library at execution time once the process has been ran.
> 
> Denis,
> The dlopen/dlsym API is widely available and can load functions from a
> library at runtime, that's the one I would use on Linux/BSD/UNIX.
> Early versions of Mac OS X don't have dlopen, so they can use a
> Mac-specific API CFBundleGetFunctionPointerForName. I'm sure there's
> an equivalent Windows solution. (Does dar even support EAs on Windows?
> I was under the impression Cygwin does not support the xattr API.)

No, Cygwin does not supports EA. But, if the dlopen/dlsym feature is
optionnal, it should not be a problem.

> 
> Anyhow, this is only an optional feature. If some unusual platform has
> no known method for supporting runtime symbol lookup, then they'll
> have only compile-time EA support. They won't be any worse off than
> they are now.

Yep.

> 
> Dave
> 


Regards,
Denis.
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