1 /* dynl.c - dynamic linking
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46 /* "dynl.c" dynamically link&load object files.
48 Modified for libguile by Marius Vollmer */
50 #if 0 /* Disabled until we know for sure that it isn't needed */
51 /* XXX - This is only here to drag in a definition of __eprintf. This
52 is needed for proper operation of dynamic linking. The real
53 solution would probably be a shared libgcc. */
59 maybe_drag_in_eprintf ()
61 assert (!maybe_drag_in_eprintf
);
68 #include "libguile/_scm.h"
69 #include "libguile/dynl.h"
70 #include "libguile/smob.h"
71 #include "libguile/keywords.h"
72 #include "libguile/ports.h"
73 #include "libguile/strings.h"
74 #include "libguile/deprecation.h"
75 #include "libguile/lang.h"
76 #include "libguile/validate.h"
78 #ifdef DYNAMIC_LINKING
80 #include "libltdl/ltdl.h"
82 /* From the libtool manual: "Note that libltdl is not threadsafe,
83 i.e. a multithreaded application has to use a mutex for libltdl.".
85 Guile does not currently support pre-emptive threads, so there is
86 no mutex. Previously SCM_DEFER_INTS and SCM_ALLOW_INTS were used:
87 they are mentioned here in case somebody is grepping for thread
92 sysdep_dynl_link (const char *fname
, const char *subr
)
95 handle
= lt_dlopenext (fname
);
101 fn
= scm_makfrom0str (fname
);
102 msg
= scm_makfrom0str (lt_dlerror ());
103 scm_misc_error (subr
, "file: ~S, message: ~S", scm_list_2 (fn
, msg
));
105 return (void *) handle
;
109 sysdep_dynl_unlink (void *handle
, const char *subr
)
111 if (lt_dlclose ((lt_dlhandle
) handle
))
113 scm_misc_error (subr
, (char *) lt_dlerror (), SCM_EOL
);
118 sysdep_dynl_func (const char *symb
, void *handle
, const char *subr
)
122 fptr
= lt_dlsym ((lt_dlhandle
) handle
, symb
);
125 scm_misc_error (subr
, (char *) lt_dlerror (), SCM_EOL
);
138 /* no dynamic linking available, throw errors. */
141 sysdep_dynl_init (void)
146 no_dynl_error (const char *subr
)
148 scm_misc_error (subr
, "dynamic linking not available", SCM_EOL
);
152 sysdep_dynl_link (const char *filename
, const char *subr
)
154 no_dynl_error (subr
);
159 sysdep_dynl_unlink (void *handle
,
162 no_dynl_error (subr
);
166 sysdep_dynl_func (const char *symbol
,
170 no_dynl_error (subr
);
176 scm_t_bits scm_tc16_dynamic_obj
;
178 #define DYNL_FILENAME(x) (SCM_CELL_OBJECT_1 (x))
179 #define DYNL_HANDLE(x) ((void *) SCM_CELL_WORD_2 (x))
180 #define SET_DYNL_HANDLE(x, v) (SCM_SET_CELL_WORD_2 ((x), (v)))
184 dynl_obj_mark (SCM ptr
)
186 return DYNL_FILENAME (ptr
);
191 dynl_obj_print (SCM exp
, SCM port
, scm_print_state
*pstate
)
193 scm_puts ("#<dynamic-object ", port
);
194 scm_iprin1 (DYNL_FILENAME (exp
), port
, pstate
);
195 if (DYNL_HANDLE (exp
) == NULL
)
196 scm_puts (" (unlinked)", port
);
197 scm_putc ('>', port
);
202 SCM_DEFINE (scm_dynamic_link
, "dynamic-link", 1, 0, 0,
204 "Open the dynamic library called @var{filename}. A library\n"
205 "handle representing the opened library is returned; this handle\n"
206 "should be used as the @var{dobj} argument to the following\n"
208 #define FUNC_NAME s_scm_dynamic_link
212 SCM_VALIDATE_STRING (1, filename
);
213 handle
= sysdep_dynl_link (SCM_STRING_CHARS (filename
), FUNC_NAME
);
214 SCM_RETURN_NEWSMOB2 (scm_tc16_dynamic_obj
, SCM_UNPACK (filename
), handle
);
219 SCM_DEFINE (scm_dynamic_object_p
, "dynamic-object?", 1, 0, 0,
221 "Return @code{#t} if @var{obj} is a dynamic library handle, or @code{#f}\n"
223 #define FUNC_NAME s_scm_dynamic_object_p
225 return SCM_BOOL (SCM_TYP16_PREDICATE (scm_tc16_dynamic_obj
, obj
));
230 SCM_DEFINE (scm_dynamic_unlink
, "dynamic-unlink", 1, 0, 0,
232 "Unlink the indicated object file from the application. The\n"
233 "argument @var{dobj} must have been obtained by a call to\n"
234 "@code{dynamic-link}. After @code{dynamic-unlink} has been\n"
235 "called on @var{dobj}, its content is no longer accessible.")
236 #define FUNC_NAME s_scm_dynamic_unlink
238 /*fixme* GC-problem */
239 SCM_VALIDATE_SMOB (SCM_ARG1
, dobj
, dynamic_obj
);
240 if (DYNL_HANDLE (dobj
) == NULL
) {
241 SCM_MISC_ERROR ("Already unlinked: ~S", dobj
);
243 sysdep_dynl_unlink (DYNL_HANDLE (dobj
), FUNC_NAME
);
244 SET_DYNL_HANDLE (dobj
, NULL
);
245 return SCM_UNSPECIFIED
;
251 SCM_DEFINE (scm_dynamic_func
, "dynamic-func", 2, 0, 0,
252 (SCM name
, SCM dobj
),
253 "Search the dynamic object @var{dobj} for the C function\n"
254 "indicated by the string @var{name} and return some Scheme\n"
255 "handle that can later be used with @code{dynamic-call} to\n"
256 "actually call the function.\n\n"
257 "Regardless whether your C compiler prepends an underscore @samp{_} to\n"
258 "the global names in a program, you should @strong{not} include this\n"
259 "underscore in @var{function}. Guile knows whether the underscore is\n"
260 "needed or not and will add it when necessary.")
261 #define FUNC_NAME s_scm_dynamic_func
263 /* The returned handle is formed by casting the address of the function to a
264 * long value and converting this to a scheme number
269 SCM_VALIDATE_STRING (1, name
);
270 /*fixme* GC-problem */
271 SCM_VALIDATE_SMOB (SCM_ARG2
, dobj
, dynamic_obj
);
272 if (DYNL_HANDLE (dobj
) == NULL
) {
273 SCM_MISC_ERROR ("Already unlinked: ~S", dobj
);
277 chars
= SCM_STRING_CHARS (name
);
278 func
= (void (*) ()) sysdep_dynl_func (chars
, DYNL_HANDLE (dobj
), FUNC_NAME
);
279 return scm_ulong2num ((unsigned long) func
);
285 SCM_DEFINE (scm_dynamic_call
, "dynamic-call", 2, 0, 0,
286 (SCM func
, SCM dobj
),
287 "Call the C function indicated by @var{func} and @var{dobj}.\n"
288 "The function is passed no arguments and its return value is\n"
289 "ignored. When @var{function} is something returned by\n"
290 "@code{dynamic-func}, call that function and ignore @var{dobj}.\n"
291 "When @var{func} is a string , look it up in @var{dynobj}; this\n"
294 "(dynamic-call (dynamic-func @var{func} @var{dobj} #f))\n"
295 "@end smallexample\n\n")
296 #define FUNC_NAME s_scm_dynamic_call
300 if (SCM_STRINGP (func
))
301 func
= scm_dynamic_func (func
, dobj
);
302 fptr
= (void (*) ()) SCM_NUM2ULONG (1, func
);
304 return SCM_UNSPECIFIED
;
308 /* return a newly allocated array of char pointers to each of the strings
309 in args, with a terminating NULL pointer. */
310 /* Note: a similar function is defined in posix.c, but we don't necessarily
311 want to export it. */
312 static char **allocate_string_pointers (SCM args
, int *num_args_return
)
315 int n_args
= scm_ilength (args
);
318 SCM_ASSERT (n_args
>= 0, args
, SCM_ARGn
, "allocate_string_pointers");
319 result
= (char **) scm_malloc ((n_args
+ 1) * sizeof (char *));
320 result
[n_args
] = NULL
;
321 for (i
= 0; i
< n_args
; i
++)
323 SCM car
= SCM_CAR (args
);
325 if (!SCM_STRINGP (car
))
328 scm_wrong_type_arg ("allocate_string_pointers", SCM_ARGn
, car
);
330 result
[i
] = SCM_STRING_CHARS (SCM_CAR (args
));
331 args
= SCM_CDR (args
);
333 *num_args_return
= n_args
;
337 SCM_DEFINE (scm_dynamic_args_call
, "dynamic-args-call", 3, 0, 0,
338 (SCM func
, SCM dobj
, SCM args
),
339 "Call the C function indicated by @var{func} and @var{dobj},\n"
340 "just like @code{dynamic-call}, but pass it some arguments and\n"
341 "return its return value. The C function is expected to take\n"
342 "two arguments and return an @code{int}, just like @code{main}:\n"
344 "int c_func (int argc, char **argv);\n"
345 "@end smallexample\n\n"
346 "The parameter @var{args} must be a list of strings and is\n"
347 "converted into an array of @code{char *}. The array is passed\n"
348 "in @var{argv} and its size in @var{argc}. The return value is\n"
349 "converted to a Scheme number and returned from the call to\n"
350 "@code{dynamic-args-call}.")
351 #define FUNC_NAME s_scm_dynamic_args_call
353 int (*fptr
) (int argc
, char **argv
);
357 if (SCM_STRINGP (func
))
358 func
= scm_dynamic_func (func
, dobj
);
360 fptr
= (int (*) (int, char **)) SCM_NUM2ULONG (1, func
);
361 argv
= allocate_string_pointers (args
, &argc
);
362 /* if the procedure mutates its arguments, the original strings will be
363 changed -- in Guile 1.6 and earlier, this wasn't the case since a
364 new copy of each string was allocated. */
365 result
= (*fptr
) (argc
, argv
);
368 return SCM_MAKINUM (0L + result
);
373 scm_init_dynamic_linking ()
375 scm_tc16_dynamic_obj
= scm_make_smob_type ("dynamic-object", 0);
376 scm_set_smob_mark (scm_tc16_dynamic_obj
, dynl_obj_mark
);
377 scm_set_smob_print (scm_tc16_dynamic_obj
, dynl_obj_print
);
379 #include "libguile/dynl.x"