1 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
3 // Purpose: Dynamic library loading classes
4 // Author: Guilhem Lavaux, Vadim Zeitlin, Vaclav Slavik
8 // Copyright: (c) 1998 Guilhem Lavaux
9 // Licence: wxWindows licence
10 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
12 #ifndef _WX_DYNLIB_H__
13 #define _WX_DYNLIB_H__
17 #if wxUSE_DYNLIB_CLASS
19 #include "wx/string.h"
20 #include "wx/dynarray.h"
22 #if defined(__OS2__) || defined(__EMX__)
23 #include "wx/os2/private.h"
27 #include "wx/msw/private.h"
30 // note that we have our own dlerror() implementation under Darwin
31 #if (defined(HAVE_DLERROR) && !defined(__EMX__)) || defined(__DARWIN__)
32 #define wxHAVE_DYNLIB_ERROR
35 class WXDLLIMPEXP_FWD_BASE wxDynamicLibraryDetailsCreator
;
37 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
38 // conditional compilation
39 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
41 // Note: __OS2__/EMX has to be tested first, since we want to use
42 // native version, even if configure detected presence of DLOPEN.
43 #if defined(__OS2__) || defined(__EMX__) || defined(__WINDOWS__)
44 typedef HMODULE wxDllType
;
45 #elif defined(HAVE_DLOPEN)
47 typedef void *wxDllType
;
48 #elif defined(HAVE_SHL_LOAD)
50 typedef shl_t wxDllType
;
51 #elif defined(__DARWIN__)
52 typedef void *wxDllType
;
53 #elif defined(__WXMAC__)
54 #include <CodeFragments.h>
55 typedef CFragConnectionID wxDllType
;
57 #error "Dynamic Loading classes can't be compiled on this platform, sorry."
60 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
62 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
66 wxDL_LAZY
= 0x00000001, // resolve undefined symbols at first use
67 // (only works on some Unix versions)
68 wxDL_NOW
= 0x00000002, // resolve undefined symbols on load
69 // (default, always the case under Win32)
70 wxDL_GLOBAL
= 0x00000004, // export extern symbols to subsequently
72 wxDL_VERBATIM
= 0x00000008, // attempt to load the supplied library
73 // name without appending the usual dll
74 // filename extension.
75 wxDL_NOSHARE
= 0x00000010, // load new DLL, don't reuse already loaded
76 // (only for wxPluginManager)
78 wxDL_DEFAULT
= wxDL_NOW
// default flags correspond to Win32
81 enum wxDynamicLibraryCategory
83 wxDL_LIBRARY
, // standard library
84 wxDL_MODULE
// loadable module/plugin
89 wxDL_PLUGIN_GUI
, // plugin that uses GUI classes
90 wxDL_PLUGIN_BASE
// wxBase-only plugin
93 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
95 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
97 // when loading a function from a DLL you always have to cast the returned
98 // "void *" pointer to the correct type and, even more annoyingly, you have to
99 // repeat this type twice if you want to declare and define a function pointer
102 // this macro makes this slightly less painful by allowing you to specify the
103 // type only once, as the first parameter, and creating a variable of this type
104 // called "pfn<name>" initialized with the "name" from the "dynlib"
105 #define wxDYNLIB_FUNCTION(type, name, dynlib) \
106 type pfn ## name = (type)(dynlib).GetSymbol(_T(#name))
109 // a more convenient function replacing wxDYNLIB_FUNCTION above
111 // it uses the convention that the type of the function is its name suffixed
112 // with "_t" but it doesn't define a variable but just assigns the loaded value
113 // to it and also allows to pass it the prefix to be used instead of hardcoding
114 // "pfn" (the prefix can be "m_" or "gs_pfn" or whatever)
115 #define wxDL_INIT_FUNC(pfx, name, dynlib) \
116 pfx ## name = (name ## _t)(dynlib).GetSymbol(#name)
120 // same as wxDL_INIT_FUNC() but appends 'A' or 'W' to the function name, see
121 // wxDynamicLibrary::GetSymbolAorW()
122 #define wxDL_INIT_FUNC_AW(pfx, name, dynlib) \
123 pfx ## name = (name ## _t)(dynlib).GetSymbolAorW(#name)
127 // the following macros can be used to redirect a whole library to a class and
128 // check at run-time if the library is present and contains all required
131 // notice that they are supposed to be used inside a class which has "m_ok"
132 // member variable indicating if the library had been successfully loaded
134 // helper macros constructing the name of the variable storing the function
135 // pointer and the name of its type from the function name
136 #define wxDL_METHOD_NAME(name) m_pfn ## name
137 #define wxDL_METHOD_TYPE(name) name ## _t
140 // - rettype: return type of the function, e.g. "int"
141 // - name: name of the function, e.g. "foo"
142 // - args: function signature in parentheses, e.g. "(int x, int y)"
143 // - argnames: the names of the parameters in parentheses, e.g. "(x, y)"
144 // - defret: the value to return if the library wasn't successfully loaded
145 #define wxDL_METHOD_DEFINE( rettype, name, args, argnames, defret ) \
146 typedef rettype (* wxDL_METHOD_TYPE(name)) args ; \
147 wxDL_METHOD_TYPE(name) wxDL_METHOD_NAME(name); \
149 { return m_ok ? wxDL_METHOD_NAME(name) argnames : defret; }
151 #define wxDL_VOIDMETHOD_DEFINE( name, args, argnames ) \
152 typedef void (* wxDL_METHOD_TYPE(name)) args ; \
153 wxDL_METHOD_TYPE(name) wxDL_METHOD_NAME(name); \
155 { if ( m_ok ) wxDL_METHOD_NAME(name) argnames ; }
157 #define wxDL_METHOD_LOAD(lib, name) \
158 wxDL_METHOD_NAME(name) = \
159 (wxDL_METHOD_TYPE(name)) lib.GetSymbol(#name, &m_ok); \
160 if ( !m_ok ) return false
162 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
163 // wxDynamicLibraryDetails: contains details about a loaded wxDynamicLibrary
164 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
166 class WXDLLIMPEXP_BASE wxDynamicLibraryDetails
169 // ctor, normally never used as these objects are only created by
170 // wxDynamicLibrary::ListLoaded()
171 wxDynamicLibraryDetails() { m_address
= NULL
; m_length
= 0; }
173 // get the (base) name
174 wxString
GetName() const { return m_name
; }
176 // get the full path of this object
177 wxString
GetPath() const { return m_path
; }
179 // get the load address and the extent, return true if this information is
181 bool GetAddress(void **addr
, size_t *len
) const
194 // return the version of the DLL (may be empty if no version info)
195 wxString
GetVersion() const
208 friend class wxDynamicLibraryDetailsCreator
;
211 WX_DECLARE_USER_EXPORTED_OBJARRAY(wxDynamicLibraryDetails
,
212 wxDynamicLibraryDetailsArray
,
215 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
216 // wxDynamicLibrary: represents a handle to a DLL/shared object
217 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
219 class WXDLLIMPEXP_BASE wxDynamicLibrary
222 // return a valid handle for the main program itself or NULL if back
223 // linking is not supported by the current platform (e.g. Win32)
224 static wxDllType
GetProgramHandle();
226 // return the platform standard DLL extension (with leading dot)
227 static const wxString
& GetDllExt() { return ms_dllext
; }
229 wxDynamicLibrary() : m_handle(0) { }
230 wxDynamicLibrary(const wxString
& libname
, int flags
= wxDL_DEFAULT
)
233 Load(libname
, flags
);
236 // NOTE: this class is (deliberately) not virtual, do not attempt
237 // to use it polymorphically.
238 ~wxDynamicLibrary() { Unload(); }
240 // return true if the library was loaded successfully
241 bool IsLoaded() const { return m_handle
!= 0; }
243 // load the library with the given name (full or not), return true if ok
244 bool Load(const wxString
& libname
, int flags
= wxDL_DEFAULT
);
246 // raw function for loading dynamic libs: always behaves as if
247 // wxDL_VERBATIM were specified and doesn't log error message if the
248 // library couldn't be loaded but simply returns NULL
249 static wxDllType
RawLoad(const wxString
& libname
, int flags
= wxDL_DEFAULT
);
251 // detach the library object from its handle, i.e. prevent the object from
252 // unloading the library in its dtor -- the caller is now responsible for
254 wxDllType
Detach() { wxDllType h
= m_handle
; m_handle
= 0; return h
; }
256 // unload the given library handle (presumably returned by Detach() before)
257 static void Unload(wxDllType handle
);
259 // unload the library, also done automatically in dtor
260 void Unload() { if ( IsLoaded() ) { Unload(m_handle
); m_handle
= 0; } }
262 // Return the raw handle from dlopen and friends.
263 wxDllType
GetLibHandle() const { return m_handle
; }
265 // check if the given symbol is present in the library, useful to verify if
266 // a loadable module is our plugin, for example, without provoking error
267 // messages from GetSymbol()
268 bool HasSymbol(const wxString
& name
) const
271 DoGetSymbol(name
, &ok
);
275 // resolve a symbol in a loaded DLL, such as a variable or function name.
276 // 'name' is the (possibly mangled) name of the symbol. (use extern "C" to
277 // export unmangled names)
279 // Since it is perfectly valid for the returned symbol to actually be NULL,
280 // that is not always indication of an error. Pass and test the parameter
281 // 'success' for a true indication of success or failure to load the
284 // Returns a pointer to the symbol on success, or NULL if an error occurred
285 // or the symbol wasn't found.
286 void *GetSymbol(const wxString
& name
, bool *success
= NULL
) const;
288 // low-level version of GetSymbol()
289 static void *RawGetSymbol(wxDllType handle
, const wxString
& name
);
290 void *RawGetSymbol(const wxString
& name
) const
292 #if defined (__WXPM__) || defined(__EMX__)
293 return GetSymbol(name
);
295 return RawGetSymbol(m_handle
, name
);
300 // this function is useful for loading functions from the standard Windows
301 // DLLs: such functions have an 'A' (in ANSI build) or 'W' (in Unicode, or
302 // wide character build) suffix if they take string parameters
303 static void *RawGetSymbolAorW(wxDllType handle
, const wxString
& name
)
317 void *GetSymbolAorW(const wxString
& name
) const
319 return RawGetSymbolAorW(m_handle
, name
);
323 // return all modules/shared libraries in the address space of this process
325 // returns an empty array if not implemented or an error occurred
326 static wxDynamicLibraryDetailsArray
ListLoaded();
328 // return platform-specific name of dynamic library with proper extension
329 // and prefix (e.g. "foo.dll" on Windows or "libfoo.so" on Linux)
330 static wxString
CanonicalizeName(const wxString
& name
,
331 wxDynamicLibraryCategory cat
= wxDL_LIBRARY
);
333 // return name of wxWidgets plugin (adds compiler and version info
336 CanonicalizePluginName(const wxString
& name
,
337 wxPluginCategory cat
= wxDL_PLUGIN_GUI
);
339 // return plugin directory on platforms where it makes sense and empty
341 static wxString
GetPluginsDirectory();
345 // common part of GetSymbol() and HasSymbol()
346 void *DoGetSymbol(const wxString
& name
, bool *success
= 0) const;
348 #ifdef wxHAVE_DYNLIB_ERROR
349 // log the error after a dlxxx() function failure
351 #endif // wxHAVE_DYNLIB_ERROR
354 // platform specific shared lib suffix.
355 static const wxString ms_dllext
;
357 // the handle to DLL or NULL
360 // no copy ctor/assignment operators (or we'd try to unload the library
362 DECLARE_NO_COPY_CLASS(wxDynamicLibrary
)
366 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
367 // Interesting defines
368 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
370 #define WXDLL_ENTRY_FUNCTION() \
371 extern "C" WXEXPORT const wxClassInfo *wxGetClassFirst(); \
372 const wxClassInfo *wxGetClassFirst() { \
373 return wxClassInfo::GetFirst(); \
376 #endif // wxUSE_DYNLIB_CLASS
378 #endif // _WX_DYNLIB_H__