include/wx/dynlib.h

   1 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
   2 // Name:        wx/dynlib.h
   3 // Purpose:     Dynamic library loading classes
   4 // Author:      Guilhem Lavaux, Vadim Zeitlin, Vaclav Slavik
   5 // Modified by:
   6 // Created:     20/07/98
   7 // RCS-ID:      $Id$
   8 // Copyright:   (c) 1998 Guilhem Lavaux
   9 // Licence:     wxWindows licence
  10 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
  11
  12 #ifndef _WX_DYNLIB_H__
  13 #define _WX_DYNLIB_H__
  14
  15 #include "wx/defs.h"
  16
  17 #if wxUSE_DYNLIB_CLASS
  18
  19 #include "wx/string.h"
  20 #include "wx/dynarray.h"
  21
  22 #if defined(__OS2__) || defined(__EMX__)
  23 #include "wx/os2/private.h"
  24 #endif
  25
  26 #ifdef __WXMSW__
  27 #include "wx/msw/private.h"
  28 #endif
  29
  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
  33 #endif
  34
  35 class WXDLLIMPEXP_BASE wxDynamicLibraryDetailsCreator;
  36
  37 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  38 // conditional compilation
  39 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  40
  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)
  46     #include <dlfcn.h>
  47     typedef void               *wxDllType;
  48 #elif defined(HAVE_SHL_LOAD)
  49     #include <dl.h>
  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;
  56 #else
  57     #error "Dynamic Loading classes can't be compiled on this platform, sorry."
  58 #endif
  59
  60 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  61 // constants
  62 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  63
  64 enum wxDLFlags
  65 {
  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
  71                                     // loaded libs.
  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)
  77
  78     wxDL_DEFAULT    = wxDL_NOW      // default flags correspond to Win32
  79 };
  80
  81 enum wxDynamicLibraryCategory
  82 {
  83     wxDL_LIBRARY,       // standard library
  84     wxDL_MODULE         // loadable module/plugin
  85 };
  86
  87 enum wxPluginCategory
  88 {
  89     wxDL_PLUGIN_GUI,    // plugin that uses GUI classes
  90     wxDL_PLUGIN_BASE    // wxBase-only plugin
  91 };
  92
  93 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  94 // macros
  95 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  96
  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
 100 // all in one line
 101 //
 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))
 107
 108 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 109 // wxDynamicLibraryDetails: contains details about a loaded wxDynamicLibrary
 110 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 111
 112 class WXDLLIMPEXP_BASE wxDynamicLibraryDetails
 113 {
 114 public:
 115     // ctor, normally never used as these objects are only created by
 116     // wxDynamicLibrary::ListLoaded()
 117     wxDynamicLibraryDetails() { m_address = NULL; m_length = 0; }
 118
 119     // get the (base) name
 120     wxString GetName() const { return m_name; }
 121
 122     // get the full path of this object
 123     wxString GetPath() const { return m_path; }
 124
 125     // get the load address and the extent, return true if this information is
 126     // available
 127     bool GetAddress(void **addr, size_t *len) const
 128     {
 129         if ( !m_address )
 130             return false;
 131
 132         if ( addr )
 133             *addr = m_address;
 134         if ( len )
 135             *len = m_length;
 136
 137         return true;
 138     }
 139
 140     // return the version of the DLL (may be empty if no version info)
 141     wxString GetVersion() const
 142     {
 143         return m_version;
 144     }
 145
 146 private:
 147     wxString m_name,
 148              m_path,
 149              m_version;
 150
 151     void *m_address;
 152     size_t m_length;
 153
 154     friend class wxDynamicLibraryDetailsCreator;
 155 };
 156
 157 WX_DECLARE_USER_EXPORTED_OBJARRAY(wxDynamicLibraryDetails,
 158                                   wxDynamicLibraryDetailsArray,
 159                                   WXDLLIMPEXP_BASE);
 160
 161 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 162 // wxDynamicLibrary: represents a handle to a DLL/shared object
 163 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 164
 165 class WXDLLIMPEXP_BASE wxDynamicLibrary
 166 {
 167 public:
 168     // return a valid handle for the main program itself or NULL if back
 169     // linking is not supported by the current platform (e.g. Win32)
 170     static wxDllType         GetProgramHandle();
 171
 172     // return the platform standard DLL extension (with leading dot)
 173     static const wxString& GetDllExt() { return ms_dllext; }
 174
 175     wxDynamicLibrary() : m_handle(0) { }
 176     wxDynamicLibrary(const wxString& libname, int flags = wxDL_DEFAULT)
 177         : m_handle(0)
 178     {
 179         Load(libname, flags);
 180     }
 181
 182     // NOTE: this class is (deliberately) not virtual, do not attempt
 183     //       to use it polymorphically.
 184     ~wxDynamicLibrary() { Unload(); }
 185
 186     // return true if the library was loaded successfully
 187     bool IsLoaded() const { return m_handle != 0; }
 188
 189     // load the library with the given name (full or not), return true if ok
 190     bool Load(const wxString& libname, int flags = wxDL_DEFAULT);
 191
 192     // raw function for loading dynamic libs: always behaves as if
 193     // wxDL_VERBATIM were specified and doesn't log error message if the
 194     // library couldn't be loaded but simply returns NULL
 195     static wxDllType RawLoad(const wxString& libname, int flags = wxDL_DEFAULT);
 196
 197     // detach the library object from its handle, i.e. prevent the object from
 198     // unloading the library in its dtor -- the caller is now responsible for
 199     // doing this
 200     wxDllType Detach() { wxDllType h = m_handle; m_handle = 0; return h; }
 201
 202     // unload the given library handle (presumably returned by Detach() before)
 203     static void Unload(wxDllType handle);
 204
 205     // unload the library, also done automatically in dtor
 206     void Unload() { if ( IsLoaded() ) { Unload(m_handle); m_handle = 0; } }
 207
 208     // Return the raw handle from dlopen and friends.
 209     wxDllType GetLibHandle() const { return m_handle; }
 210
 211     // check if the given symbol is present in the library, useful to verify if
 212     // a loadable module is our plugin, for example, without provoking error
 213     // messages from GetSymbol()
 214     bool HasSymbol(const wxString& name) const
 215     {
 216         bool ok;
 217         DoGetSymbol(name, &ok);
 218         return ok;
 219     }
 220
 221     // resolve a symbol in a loaded DLL, such as a variable or function name.
 222     // 'name' is the (possibly mangled) name of the symbol. (use extern "C" to
 223     // export unmangled names)
 224     //
 225     // Since it is perfectly valid for the returned symbol to actually be NULL,
 226     // that is not always indication of an error.  Pass and test the parameter
 227     // 'success' for a true indication of success or failure to load the
 228     // symbol.
 229     //
 230     // Returns a pointer to the symbol on success, or NULL if an error occurred
 231     // or the symbol wasn't found.
 232     void *GetSymbol(const wxString& name, bool *success = NULL) const;
 233
 234     // low-level version of GetSymbol()
 235     static void *RawGetSymbol(wxDllType handle, const wxString& name);
 236     void *RawGetSymbol(const wxString& name) const
 237     {
 238 #if defined (__WXPM__) || defined(__EMX__)
 239         return GetSymbol(name);
 240 #else
 241         return RawGetSymbol(m_handle, name);
 242 #endif
 243     }
 244
 245 #ifdef __WXMSW__
 246     // this function is useful for loading functions from the standard Windows
 247     // DLLs: such functions have an 'A' (in ANSI build) or 'W' (in Unicode, or
 248     // wide character build) suffix if they take string parameters
 249     static void *RawGetSymbolAorW(wxDllType handle, const wxString& name)
 250     {
 251         return RawGetSymbol
 252                (
 253                 handle,
 254                 name +
 255 #if wxUSE_UNICODE
 256                 L'W'
 257 #else
 258                 'A'
 259 #endif
 260                );
 261     }
 262
 263     void *GetSymbolAorW(const wxString& name) const
 264     {
 265         return RawGetSymbolAorW(m_handle, name);
 266     }
 267 #endif // __WXMSW__
 268
 269     // return all modules/shared libraries in the address space of this process
 270     //
 271     // returns an empty array if not implemented or an error occurred
 272     static wxDynamicLibraryDetailsArray ListLoaded();
 273
 274     // return platform-specific name of dynamic library with proper extension
 275     // and prefix (e.g. "foo.dll" on Windows or "libfoo.so" on Linux)
 276     static wxString CanonicalizeName(const wxString& name,
 277                                      wxDynamicLibraryCategory cat = wxDL_LIBRARY);
 278
 279     // return name of wxWidgets plugin (adds compiler and version info
 280     // to the filename):
 281     static wxString
 282     CanonicalizePluginName(const wxString& name,
 283                            wxPluginCategory cat = wxDL_PLUGIN_GUI);
 284
 285     // return plugin directory on platforms where it makes sense and empty
 286     // string on others:
 287     static wxString GetPluginsDirectory();
 288
 289
 290 protected:
 291     // common part of GetSymbol() and HasSymbol()
 292     void *DoGetSymbol(const wxString& name, bool *success = 0) const;
 293
 294 #ifdef wxHAVE_DYNLIB_ERROR
 295     // log the error after a dlxxx() function failure
 296     static void Error();
 297 #endif // wxHAVE_DYNLIB_ERROR
 298
 299
 300     // platform specific shared lib suffix.
 301     static const wxString ms_dllext;
 302
 303     // the handle to DLL or NULL
 304     wxDllType m_handle;
 305
 306     // no copy ctor/assignment operators (or we'd try to unload the library
 307     // twice)
 308     DECLARE_NO_COPY_CLASS(wxDynamicLibrary)
 309 };
 310
 311
 312 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 313 // Interesting defines
 314 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 315
 316 #define WXDLL_ENTRY_FUNCTION() \
 317 extern "C" WXEXPORT const wxClassInfo *wxGetClassFirst(); \
 318 const wxClassInfo *wxGetClassFirst() { \
 319   return wxClassInfo::GetFirst(); \
 320 }
 321
 322 #endif // wxUSE_DYNLIB_CLASS
 323
 324 #endif // _WX_DYNLIB_H__