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.
25 #endif /* __cplusplus */
27 extern const char *g_log_domain_gmodule;
31 /* exporting and importing functions,
32 * we need autoconf support here to feature Windows dll stubs.
34 #define G_MODULE_IMPORT extern
35 #define G_MODULE_EXPORT
40 G_MODULE_BIND_LAZY = 1 << 0,
41 G_MODULE_BIND_MASK = 0x01
44 typedef struct _GModule GModule;
45 typedef const gchar* (*GModuleCheckInit) (GModule *module);
46 typedef void (*GModuleUnload) (GModule *module);
48 /* return TRUE if dynamic module loading is supported */
49 gboolean g_module_supported (void);
51 /* open a module `file_name' and return handle, which is NULL on error */
52 GModule* g_module_open (const gchar *file_name,
55 /* close a previously opened module, returns TRUE on success */
56 gboolean g_module_close (GModule *module);
58 /* make a module resident so g_module_close on it will be ignored */
59 void g_module_make_resident (GModule *module);
61 /* query the last module error as a string */
62 gchar* g_module_error (void);
64 /* retrive a symbol pointer from `module', returns TRUE on success */
65 gboolean g_module_symbol (GModule *module,
66 const gchar *symbol_name,
69 /* retrive the file name from an existing module */
70 gchar* g_module_name (GModule *module);
75 #endif /* __cplusplus */
78 #endif /* __GMODULE_H__ */