FFI - can I access external constants?

Andreas Raab andreas.raab at gmx.de
Tue Feb 13 21:34:30 UTC 2007


Jim McLoughlin wrote:
> I want to access some constant structures defined in my external lib.
> If there was a function that returned them, it would be no problem,
> but I don't see any obvious way to directly access them.

Unfortunately, there isn't. The FFI doesn't expose the direct equivalent 
of dlsym() but only uses it implicitly when invoking an FFI call. I 
guess this should be considered a bug...

Cheers,
   - Andreas



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