c_plugin

Getting started

An example for a C (C99) plugin system. It can load/unload plugins at runtime and call functions from them.

Prerequisites

• Make
• GCC
• Linux (or WSL on Windows).

Building

To build the project:

make

To build and test the project:

make test

Usage

To run the project and load the plugin1: Note: You can change the plugin name to load another plugin (plugin2).

./main plugin1

Contributing

If you want to contribute to this project, you can do it by opening a pull request or an issue.

Open source projects used

• Make
• gcc
• actions

Sources and references

• linux-dlopen-system-call-c
• dlopen_sample.c
• alternatives-to-dlsym-and-dlopen-in-c
• sample-cpp-plugin
• how-much-overhead-can-the-fpic-flag-add

Licensing

See the LICENSE document.