[Sablevm-developer] lt_dlopen(NULL) dependency eliminated

[Etienne G. <gag...@uq...>]

Hi all.

I have checked in staging my adaptation of Melanie's code to eliminate
dependencies on a working lt_dlopen(NULL)/lt_dlsym() pair.

Hopefully, this change will greatly simplify porting SableVM to new 
platforms.  Why not a "real Windows" port, soon, using Microsoft compiler?

In order for this code to work, it is *imperative* that all internal
native methods (e.g. Java_*) to be defined as:

JNIEXPORT ...
Java_... (...)
{
...

Where "Java_" starts on the first character of a line, and the "(" of 
formal parameters is on the same line.  If you do not follow this 
requirement, you method won't be found at runtime...  You've been warned;-)

Anyway, this should be true of *all* functions in SableVM.  You're 
welcome to fix any function that does not abide by this rule. :-)

Etienne

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