Loaded Object Example (GNU make)
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12.2.4 Example Loaded Object
Let’s suppose we wanted to write a new GNU make
function that would create a temporary file and return its name. We would like our function to take a prefix as an argument. First we can write the function in a file mk_temp.c
:
#include <stdlib.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <string.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <errno.h> #include <gnumake.h> int plugin_is_GPL_compatible; char * gen_tmpfile(const char *nm, int argc, char **argv) { int fd; /* Compute the size of the filename and allocate space for it. */ int len = strlen (argv[0]) + 6 + 1; char *buf = gmk_alloc (len); strcpy (buf, argv[0]); strcat (buf, "XXXXXX"); fd = mkstemp(buf); if (fd >= 0) { /* Don't leak the file descriptor. */ close (fd); return buf; } /* Failure. */ fprintf (stderr, "mkstemp(%s) failed: %s\n", buf, strerror (errno)); gmk_free (buf); return NULL; } int mk_temp_gmk_setup () { /* Register the function with make name "mk-temp". */ gmk_add_function ("mk-temp", gen_tmpfile, 1, 1, 1); return 1; }
Next, we will write a makefile that can build this shared object, load it, and use it:
all: @echo Temporary file: $(mk-temp tmpfile.) load mk_temp.so mk_temp.so: mk_temp.c $(CC) -shared -fPIC -o $ $<
On MS-Windows, due to peculiarities of how shared objects are produced, the compiler needs to scan the import library produced when building make
, typically called libgnumake-version.dll.a
, where version
is the version of the load object API. So the recipe to produce a shared object will look on Windows like this (assuming the API version is 1):
mk_temp.dll: mk_temp.c $(CC) -shared -o $ $< -lgnumake-1
Now when you run make
you’ll see something like:
$ make cc -shared -fPIC -o mk_temp.so mk_temp.c Temporary filename: tmpfile.A7JEwd
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