Re: How to reload C functions added with "require"?

[Chris Marrin <chris@...>]

Rob Shaw wrote:
> Sorry, I should correct a mistyping in the previous post, in case anyone
> wants to try this.  Also, " require(name) " constructs part of the  key 
> to the
> registry in the form " ./name.so " for a library in the local directory.
> So the reload function  should read:
>
> function req(name)
> package.unload('./'..name..'.so')
> package.loadlib('./'..name..'.so','_luaopen_'..name)()
> end
>
> This will now correctly reload a local .so file loaded with "require".

Note that this only works on Linux (and maybe OSX). Does Lua have a 
constant or function that can give you the appropriate suffix for a 
native dynamic library?


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