Re: Dynamic Plug-in Loading with Ada

On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 23:30:13 +0200, Preben Randhol wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 08:43:20PM +0000, Dr. Adrian Wrigley wrote:
>>
>> I put together a little package last year to do "Live Coding" in
>> Ada under GNAT/Linux.
>>
>> The package (LiveCoding) implemented procedures to run statements, to
>> compile subprograms and to compile packages. The arguments would
>> be strings and context clauses. I implemented context clauses as
>> a separate data type which could be passed in to the code generator,
>>
>> The LiveCoding package wrote out new packages into files and called
>> out to gnatgcc (or whatever) to compile the code fragments using dlopen
>> and dlsym to access the new program symbols.
>
> Sounds interesting? Is this package by any chance available online?

I had thought it might be useful to other people at some point.
The functionality is very general, and can be a substitute for
an embedded command interpreter. But it is little more than
a heap of code I threw together as a proof of concept. I don't
have the time to publish it right now. Maybe I could send you
some code to look at (next week).
--
Dr. Adrian Wrigley, Cambridge, UK.

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