I have a third party OS X dylib that I'm using in my app and don't have easy access to its creator. I'd like to determine if it was linked with -flat_namespace. Is that possible? If so, how?

What is the easiest and safest way to call a function from a shared library / dll? I am mostly interested in doing this on linux, but it would be better if there were a platform-independent way. C...

I have a shared library that is linked with another (third-party) shared library. My shared library is then loaded using dlopen in my application. All this works fine (assuming files are in the pro...

To see what memory map regions a running program contains, I write a simple C program to read data from /proc/self/maps: #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <sys/stat.h&...

I am going to start a new C++ project that will rely on a series of libraries, including part of the Boost libraries, the log4cxx or the google logging library - and as the project evolves other on...

We're developing an application that will have a plug-in "architecture" to allow consumers of the app to provide their own proprietary algorithms. (We will basically have a set of parsers and...

How to I find the filename of a library via the library name? In otherwords, when I use "-lc", I know it is /lib/libc.so.6 (or something similar.) I want to be able to type some command where "-lc...

From the documentation's description, they seem to do the same thing except that "not all systems" support shared and "only some systems" support symbolic (it's unclear if these are the same set of...

I am trying the google performance tool for CPU time profiling. However, I had encountered some problem that I cannot read the shared library file "libprofiler.so.0" I had read the README of googl...

I've built a test ELF program using the LSB SDK (note that my question is not specific to LSB): $ /opt/lsb/bin/lsbcc tst.c $ ls -l a.out -rwxr-xr-x 1 math math 10791 2009-10-13 20:13 a.out $ file...

I have a program (specifically my entry for the SO DevDays Countdown app challenge) which relies on several dynamic libraries, namely libSDL, libSDL_ttf, and others. I have these libraries installe...

I would like to implement a Plug-In framework for a C# application; such that the application doesn’t need to know of all of the available .DLL’s at time of compilation but can then be dynamically ...

Is it possible to substitute system functions, as is possible on Linux and Solaris using the LD_PRELOAD For example by setting the environment variable: LD_PRELOAD=/path/to/mymalloc.so I would ha...

Is there a way to exclude a folder that is located under a dynamic link in InstallShield? So I have a dynamic link that starts at PATH A, and the following is a small example directory structure: ...

Over the months I've written some nice generic enough functionality that I want to build as a library and link dynamically against rather than importing 50-odd header/source files. The project is ...

Let's say we got a main executable called "my_app" and it uses several other libraries: 3 libraries are linked statically, and other 3 are linked dynamically. In which order should they be linked a...

I've been trying to build a simple prototype application in Django, and am reaching the point of giving up, sadly, as it's just too complicated (I know it would be worth it in the long-run, but I r...

I have an executable on Linux that loads libfoo.so.1 (that's a SONAME) as one of its dependencies (via another shared library). It also links to another system library, which, in turn, links to a s...