Re: OSX and loadlib

[Sam Roberts <vieuxtech@...>]

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Wesley Smith <wesley.hoke@gmail.com> wrote:
> Actually dlopen is not ideal on OSX.  It wreaks havoc with
> CoreAudio/CoreMidi type frameworks whereas NSLoadModule functions
> behave appropriately.  From what I remember reading the tech docs,
> they highly recommended NSLoadModule over dlopen and from my
> experience this is sage advice.

Apple's developer docs claim use of NSLoadModule is discouraged in
preference to dlopen:

http://developer.apple.com/DOCUMENTATION/DeveloperTools/Reference/MachOReference/Reference/reference.html
http://developer.apple.com/releasenotes/DeveloperTools/RN-dyld/index.html

Not that Apple's advice necessarily applies to every circumstance.

Cheers,
Sam