Re: loadlib problems

[Aidan G. <wgs...@ih...>]

Christian Walther wrote:
> I suspect that your error is "file not found" - the library will  
> certainly not be found inside a zipped project, and even in an  
> unzipped project, unless you changed the working directory to there,  
> it won't be found inside the node if you just say "hello.so" without a  
> path.

Ah, it finds it, if I give it the full path. It doesn't seem to like relative
paths (or, more likely, I can't figure out what the working directory is).

> (As noted in commit message 188: "plugin support is quick-and-dirty  
> for now, there is no standard way to locate plugins, and no formal API  
> for plugins to interact with Pipmak". The former issue will be  
> addressed in the real module support that I should be working on.)

I don't know if this could be done, but how about changing Pipmak to look for
plug-ins (when loadlib() is called, maybe write a wrapper function) in a 
directory named "plugins" in the same
directory as the Pipmak project? (i.e. all plug-in paths are relative to the
"plugins" directory.)  So the directory structure might look like this...

loadlibTest/
|-- loadlibTest.pipmak
|   |-- 1
|   |   |-- face.png
|   |   `-- node.lua
|   `-- main.lua
`-- plugins
     `-- hello.so

  -Aidan