re: g_module_symbol error

[andrew openldev org]

> Recently I have been working on dynamically loading libraries for my application
> with GModule. I have a source file that contains this function:
> 
> G_MODULE_EXPORT PluginState init (Plugin *p)
> {
>   /* Do something */
> }
> 
> A library is created with libtool with the parameters '-module' and '-avoid-version'
> passed to it in the Makefile.am. I then try to access it with this code:
> 
> GModule *module;
> module = g_module_open (library, G_MODULE_BIND_LAZY);
> if (!module)
>   error (g_module_error());
> else
>   if (!g_module_symbol (module, "init", (gpointer*)&init)
>     error (g_module_error());
> 
> I've gone through the API docs a few times as well as some code from
> various other open source projects, but cannot figure out what I am
> screwing up. I know it is probably something stupid, but any help would 
> be much appreciated. Thanks!

Oh crap! I forgot to put the error I'm getting. In any case, I'm getting this
error from the second g_module_error() call:

`init': /usr/lib/libplugin.so: undefined symbol: init

Sorry about that!

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Andrew Krause