saluber / sharedlibpp

Tiny cross-platform plug-in system (dll, so, dylib)

Simple cross platform plug-in system

The sharedlibpp is a tiny cross-platform library to create and load shared libraries for different platform (Linux/Mac/Windows). The sharedlibpp provide an easy and portable way to create plug-ins which encapsulate your c++ classes inside a shared library (so, dylib, dll). The original code is taken and from YARP (Yet Another Robot Platform). The code is simplified by removing dependencies and some helper functions are added to report the native OS error messages on failures.

Building on Linux/Mac

$ cd sharedlibpp
$ mkdir build; cd build
$ cmake ../; make

Building on Windows

The easiest way is to use Cmake to create VStudio project. To do that:

• download and install cmake for windows.
• open the cmake gui and set the source path to sharedlibpp and set the build path (for example sharedlibpp/build).
• configure and generate visual studio project.
• open the project and built it.

Running example

The build system by defualt compiles and build the examples.

• On Linux/Mac

    $ cd sharedlibpp/build/examples
    $ ./math_test mymath.so
    $ ./math_test_custom mymathcustom.so

• On Windows first switch to directory where example is created and then

    > math_test mymath.dll
    > math_test_custom mymathcustom.dll