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Re: Problem with differences with DLOPEN / DLSYM compared to ubuntu (16.04) / debian (stretch).


On 15/09/2017 17:07, cyg Simple wrote:
Please consider using an interleaving method of posting on this list.
Top posting is considered rude.

On 9/15/2017 9:51 AM, Gary Schneir wrote:
Thanks for the response but I am a little confused by it.  If Cygwin is
supposed to provide POSIX API functionality and DLOPEN / DLSYM are
supported in CYGWIN, then I shouldn't care about the underlying
complexity or restrictions of running within the Windows environment and
using DLLs.  The behavior should be the same as in other POSIX environments.

You presented your case well and I was waiting on someone familiar with
the code to respond.  I'm not sure that would be Kaz, he was just trying
to be helpful from his experiences.  I agree with your surmise that
Cygwin should perform similar results as Linux in this case.

...

If you are saying that I did not include some sort of
__declspec(dllexport) directive in my code so that it can find my
symbols, that is something else but you indicate that you think cygwin
hides that complexity in shared libraries.

Actually it would be binutils, regardless of Cygwin or MinGW, that is
trying to hide the complexity of needing to supply the
__declspec([export|import]) declarations.  The logic for that is a bit
confusing but if none is given then all symbols are exported.

You need to decorate the symbols you wish to be visible with '__attribute__ ((dllexport))' or '__declspec(dllexport)' (MSVC syntax which is also supported by gcc)

See [1] for an example of this done portably

[1] https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/Visibility

Alternatively, you can use the ld flag --export-all-symbols (cf. with the ELF option --export-dynamic, which I think you must be using to get the observed behaviour on linux) to make all symbols visible.

Taking your example, and making it compilable:

$ cat dlopen.cc
#include <iostream>
#include <memory>
#include <dlfcn.h>

void * handle, * symbol;
const char * errorStr;

int main()
{
  /* get access to the executable's symbol table */
  handle = dlopen(NULL, RTLD_LAZY);
  errorStr = dlerror();

  if (errorStr)
    {
      std::clog << "dlopen error '" << errorStr << "'" << std::endl;
    }
  if (handle)
    {
      std::clog << "handle ok " << std::endl;
    }
  else
    {
      std::clog << "handle NULL " << std::endl;
    }

  /* look up the from_string function */
  symbol = dlsym(handle, "functionname");
  errorStr = dlerror();

  if (symbol)
    {
      std::clog << "dlsym symbol ok " << std::endl;
    }
  else
    {
      std::clog << "dlsym symbol NULL " << std::endl;
    }
  if (errorStr)
    {
      std::clog << "dlsym error '" << errorStr << "'" << std::endl;
    }
}

extern "C" __attribute__ ((dllexport))
void functionname()
{
}

$ g++ dlopen.cc -o dlopen

$ ./dlopen
handle ok
dlsym symbol ok


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