Load shared library by path at runtime

Question

I am building a Java application that uses a shared library written in C++ and compiled for different operating systems. The problem is, that this shared library itself depe

Answer 1

Un UNIX/Linux systems you can use dlopen. The issue then is you have to fetch all symbols you need via dlsym

Simple example:

typedef int (*some_func)(char *param);

void *myso = dlopen("/path/to/my.so", RTLD_NOW);
some_func *func = dlsym(myso, "function_name_to_fetch");
func("foo");
dlclose(myso);

Will load the .so and execute function_name_to_fetch() from in there. See the man page dlopen(1) for more.