G_MODULE_SUFFIX is deprecated now because you will get the wrong
results using it most of the time:
1. The suffix on macOS is usually 'dylib', but it's 'so' when using
Autotools, so there's no way to get the suffix correct using
a pre-processor macro.
2. Prefixes also vary in a platform-specific way. You may or may not have
a 'lib' prefix for the name on Windows and on Cygwin the prefix is
'cyg'.
3. The library name itself can vary per platform. For instance, you may
want to load foo-1.dll on Windows and libfoo.1.dylib on macOS. This
is for libraries, not modules, but that is still a use-case that
people use the GModule API for.
g_module_build_path() does take care of (2) on Cygwin, but it
fundamentally cannot handle the possibility of multiple options for
the module name, since it does not do any I/O. Hence, it is also
deprecated.
Instead, g_module_open() has been improved so that it takes care of
all this by searching the filesystem for combinations of possible
suffixes and prefixes on each platform. Along the way, the
documentation for it was also improved to make it clearer what it
does.
Closes https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/issues/520
Closes https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/issues/1413
These have all been added manually, as I’ve finished all the files which
I can automatically detect.
All the license headers in this commit are for LGPL-2.1-or-later, and
all have been double-checked against the license paragraph in the file
header.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org>
Helps: #1415
2007-11-07 Matthias Clasen <mclasen@redhat.com>
* *.c: Make header include order consistent (#71704,
Diego Escalante Urrelo)
svn path=/trunk/; revision=5817
Sun Feb 22 02:28:43 2004 Matthias Clasen <maclas@gmx.de>
* configure.in: Set the gmodule suffix to 'a' for aix and
use the aix gmodule implementation. (#85930, Laurent Vivier)
Bug #85930, Laurent Vivier:
* gmodule-ar.c: Implementation of native module management for AIX.
* gmoduleconf.h.in:
* gmodule.c: Support gmodule-ar.c
