README.md

Simple cross platform plug-in system

sharedlibpp is a tiny cross-platform library to create and load shared libraries for different platform (Linux/Mac/Windows). sharedlibpp provides an easy and portable way to create plug-ins which encapsulate your c++ classes inside a shared library (so, dylib, dll). The original code is taken and from YARP (Yet Another Robot Platform). The code is simplified by removing dependencies and some helper functions are added to report the native OS error messages on failures.

Building on Linux/Mac

$ cd sharedlibpp
$ cmake -Bbuild -S. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=./install
$ cmake --build . --config Release
$ cmake --install .

Running example

The build system by default compiles and build the examples.

• On Linux/Mac

    $ cd sharedlibpp/build/examples
    $ ./math_test mymath
    $ ./math_test_custom mymathcustom

• On Windows first switch to directory where example is created and then

    > math_test mymath
    > math_test_custom mymathcustom

Versioning policy

Any ABI or API incompatible change will result in a major release bump.