[LLVMdev] Another question to add to the pile

[Talin]

Chris Lattner wrote:
>> However, I'm stumped as to how to resolve references to external C 
>> functions in my own runtime. I saw the "addLibrary" function in the 
>> stacker example, but that just takes a module name - it doesn't tell 
>> the linker/interpreter where the module is located, and there doesn't 
>> appear to be any command-line options in lli to tell it where to find 
>> external libraries.
> 
> You can use the -load command to do this:
> 
> lli -load /path/to/your.so foo.bc
> 
> this will cause it to dlopen the specified .so/.dylib.

Cool, that's what I needed. I was a little confused by the description 
of that option in --help, which says "Load the specified plugin". I 
usually associate the word "plugin" with something that has a specific 
interface, not just an arbitrary .so.

-- Talin