dynamic linking question

[Joe Buck]

On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 12:37:06PM -0400, Jim Norris wrote:
> I'm trying to find documentation on how to dynamically link to a shared
> object at run time. I found something that describes how to do it in C
> using gcc but that's not exactly what I need.

Wrong list.

> I need to know the steps gcc takes to compile code to open the library,
> get the address of the function from it's name, call the function, and
> close the library. Is there a standard proceedure for dynamically linking
> to a shared object?

For Solaris, BSD, GNU/Linux, etc, type "man dlopen"