Remove a(nother) guaranteed build failure until what is it testing

[wxWidgets.git] / include / wx / dynlib.h

diff --git a/include/wx/dynlib.h b/include/wx/dynlib.h
index 32b569ccdb557d804503a09ad74bcbaea48ab692..e163ae209866aebc2e3276135530710103099de7 100644 (file)
--- a/include/wx/dynlib.h
+++ b/include/wx/dynlib.h
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ public:
     //       to use it polymorphically.
     ~wxDynamicLibrary() { Unload(); }
 
-    // return TRUE if the library was loaded successfully
+    // return true if the library was loaded successfully
     bool IsLoaded() const { return m_handle != 0; }
 
     // load the library with the given name (full or not), return true if ok
@@ -151,6 +151,16 @@ public:
     // Return the raw handle from dlopen and friends.
     wxDllType GetLibHandle() const { return m_handle; }
 
+    // check if the given symbol is present in the library, useful to verify if
+    // a loadable module is our plugin, for example, without provoking error
+    // messages from GetSymbol()
+    bool HasSymbol(const wxString& name) const
+    {
+        bool ok;
+        DoGetSymbol(name, &ok);
+        return ok;
+    }
+
     // resolve a symbol in a loaded DLL, such as a variable or function name.
     // 'name' is the (possibly mangled) name of the symbol. (use extern "C" to
     // export unmangled names)
@@ -170,7 +180,7 @@ public:
     static wxString CanonicalizeName(const wxString& name,
                                      wxDynamicLibraryCategory cat = wxDL_LIBRARY);
 
-    // return name of wxWindows plugin (adds compiler and version info
+    // return name of wxWidgets plugin (adds compiler and version info
     // to the filename):
     static wxString
     CanonicalizePluginName(const wxString& name,
@@ -186,6 +196,10 @@ public:
 #endif
 
 protected:
+    // the real implementation of GetSymbol()
+    void *DoGetSymbol(const wxString& name, bool *success = 0) const;
+
+
     // platform specific shared lib suffix.
     static const wxChar *ms_dllext;
 
@@ -220,11 +234,11 @@ public:
       which case the library is searched for in all standard locations
       (use GetDllExt() to construct the filename)
 
-      if success pointer is not NULL, it will be filled with TRUE if everything
-      went ok and FALSE otherwise
+      if success pointer is not NULL, it will be filled with true if everything
+      went ok and false otherwise
      */
     static wxDllType LoadLibrary(const wxString& name, bool *success = NULL);
-    
+
     /*
       This function unloads the shared library previously loaded with
       LoadLibrary