petsc-dev 2012-05-24

PetscDLSym

finds a symbol in a dynamic library

Synopsis

PetscErrorCode  PetscDLSym(PetscDLHandle handle,const char symbol[],void **value)

Not Collective

Input Parameters

	handle	- obtained with PetscDLOpen() or PETSC_NULL
	symbol	- name of symbol

Output Parameter

value -pointer to the function

Notes

If handle is PETSC_NULL, the symbol is looked for in the main executable's dynamic symbol table. In order to be dynamically loadable, the symbol has to be exported as such. On many UNIX-like systems this requires platform-specific linker flags.

Level:developer
Location:src/sys/dll/dlimpl.c
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