On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 22:13 +0100, Steve Harris wrote:
> On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 04:50:13 -0400, Dave Robillard wrote:
> > I guess the port things aren't a good justification for the creation
> > parameters, you're right. The question, then, is what is the
> > recommended way for the host to provide functions to the plugin? That's
> > what Lars was originally seeking (and solves the above allocation
> > problem as well)
>
> I think that if it's provided as part of a HostFeature (so the plugin
> knows it exists and what it's called) it can be obtained using the OS's
> normal dynamic linking functions. I've not tried though.
Do you mean that the plugin should dlopen the host? Wouldn't that
require some way to pass the path to the host program to the plugin (in
which case you might as well pass a function pointer directly)?
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