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I think I've read on this forum that it's not possible to create shared libraries on Linux or OS X like we can with Windows (DLLs), correct?

If so, is that something on the horizon for future versions of PB for Linux and/or OS X? Maybe for PB4?

I'd like to create an application with a functionality "plug-in" type architecture and shared libraries seem to be the only way to go to achieve this with PB?

I dont know about OSX, but you can create share libraries (.so) in Linux to use for PB/Linux.

Shannara wrote:I dont know about OSX, but you can create share libraries (.so) in Linux to use for PB/Linux.

In which PB-version for Linux?

3.94, someone asked a similar question and fred responded with instructions or such on how to do so.

May be i'm getting old, but i can't remember such..

Not old, I turn 28 tomorrow

I think I agree though .. ?

References:

http://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewtop ... ht=library
http://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewtop ... highlight=

On the forum, there are some posts concerning using 3rd party libraries in PB, so it must be possible ... fmod, scentilla, midas (?), etc comes to mind. So if they can do it .. ... Or do you mean userlibraries?

Ha, i understood he wanted to create a .so with PB (like 'create dll' on Windows)

Fred wrote:Ha, i understood he wanted to create a .so with PB (like 'create dll' on Windows)

That's correct, I want to create a .so shared object on Linux (and OS X I guess), just like I can create a DLL on Windows.

Unless someone has another way to create plug-ins for an application.

That's not possible, but you can do a Userlib with it. BTW.: *.so won't work, because if you want to link it with the Linux Linker of PureBasic you have to turn every asm command IIRC.

It should be made possible though

What about .dylib for Mach-O?