Calling functions in an so file from Go

Question

Is it possible to call a static object (.so) file from Go? I\'ve been searchign Google and I keep hitting upon the claim that I can do

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Answer 1

On a POSIX platform, you could use cgo to call dlopen and friends:

// #cgo LDFLAGS: -ldl
// #include 
import "C"

import fmt

func foo() {
     handle := C.dlopen(C.CString("libfoo.so"), C.RTLD_LAZY)
     bar := C.dlsym(handle, C.CString("bar"))
     fmt.Printf("bar is at %p\n", bar)
}