Dynamic loading and symbols sharing

Question

Hi, I'm trying to load a module library via dl in such way, that the module can access globals from the main application. How is that possible to do?

I get an error message from dlopen saying library/name.so: undefined symbol: .... The only flag used is: RTLD_NOW.

The module itself is build with libtool with -module -avoid-version.

Answer 1

The answer is: use -Wl,--export-dynamic when linking the main binary, so all symbols are automatically exported to the loaded libraries.

Same question, just asked differently: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/480617/dlopen-issue