Re: [LuaJIT ffi] dynamic loading of DLL functions

[Thomas Lauer <thomas.lauer@...>]

Mike Pall <mikelu-1107@mike.de> wrote:
> Thomas Lauer wrote:
> > I am trying to call a few Win32 functions which may or may not be
> > present in the target DLL.
> > 
> > I've found no simple (ie fast) way to check whether a cdef'd function
> > has actually been found in the relevant namespace. ffi.typeof() etc all
> > seem to throw an error if the function name could not be resolved. Of
> > course, I could catch that but I'd assume this scenario is sufficiently
> > common to warrant some sort of API. Perhaps I did miss something
> > obvious?
> 
> pcall() is your friend. If you have millions of symbols to look
> up, consider using GetProcAddress() instead (like you would in C).

Yeah, that's how I'm doing it at the moment. But to throw this sort of
machinery on such a simple problem somehow just doesn't feel right, if
you know what I mean.

Anyway, it's not a million symbols, so it's gotta be alright, I guess.

-- 
cheers  thomasl