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Brian Fraser wrote: > Background: > Android's linker has some bugg^Wunusual behavior, in that it caches loaded > libraries, but only uses the basename in the cache. That means that, > as far as its dlopen() is concerned, the libraries for Hash::Util and > List::Util, > both of which are named Util.so, are the same. > > What we did in the android branch was introduce an option, d_libname_unique, > that when defined, has Makemaker create an "unique" libname for each module, > and teaches XSLoader and Dynaloader to look for those; So for example, > Hash/Util/Util.so becomes Hash/Util/Perl_Hash_Util.so. > > The changes for this are in > http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/shortlog/refs/heads/hugmeir/d_libname_unique > and can be tested by compiling perl with -Dd_libname_unique. > > Any objections to this going in? > I'm wondering a little bit if Win32 Perl needs this. Win32's runtime linker does the same basename matching unless you pass an absolute path (Dynaloader passes absolute paths to Win32's runtime linker). A big problem results, if a XS DLL has the same filename as non-XS DLL, and another DLL tries to link to the filename, and linker finds the XS DLL instead, which only exports the boot function, not dozens of non-Perl C functions. Here is one with version::'s version.dll conflicting with MS's version.dll (MS version.dll is a metadata library for PE files's "version resource") https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=88458#txn-1308331 . I also recently ran into this problem with building http://search.cpan.org/~pjacklam/Math-BigInt-GMP-1.37/lib/Math/BigInt/GMP.pm which generated a GMP.dll, which linked to gmp.dll, and couldn't be loaded into any process due to missing functions (GMP.dll the XS lib's imported functions were attempted to be resolved with GMP.dll the XS lib's exported function table by the Win32 runtime linker, instead of searching for another gmp.dll using the default collection of folders). I had to rename the C function exporting gmp.dll to something else and recompile to make it work.Thread Previous | Thread Next