[CMake] Loading Plugins

[Bradley Lowekamp]

Hello,

Yes, this can be done with ITK's object factory mechanism. I would study how it's done with ITK's ImageIO plugin mechanism[1], then figure out how to adapt the same framework for your interface.

Brad

[1] http://www.itk.org/Wiki/Plugin_IO_mechanisms

    

On Oct 31, 2014, at 2:20 PM, Aaron Boxer <boxerab at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> I have a C CMake project, and I would like to add the following feature:
> 
> 1) define an interface for a second dynamic library 
> 2) look in a specified folder at runtime, and try to load this library
> 3) if loading fails, then get notified of this fact, so that I can use statically linked fall-back routines in the parent project.
> 
> Is this possible?  Any ideas or advice would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Aaron
> 
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