[Gambas-user] Explicitly load a library

[Benoît Minisini]

Le 29/05/2017 à 05:30, adamnt42 at ...626... a écrit :
> Is there any way to explicitly load a library similar to loading a
> component via Component.Load(name as String)?
> 
> I want to load a library used by another project and determine the
> exposed classes in the library. It's for a code generator.
> 
> So, my "target" project, say "AuctionCalendar" uses the
> "horse4.gambas" library. My code generator "GenCode2" interrogates
> the .project file for AuctionCalendar and can load any components it
> uses and determine the exposed classes therein. But I can't find a
> way to do the same for the horse4 library.  Note, I can't use the
> source project for horse4 because it may not match the installed
> version, so I need to get the classes out of the executable archive.
> 

Component.Load() can take an absolute path to a gambas executable to 
load it as a library.

To just get information about a library file, look at the CLibraryInfo 
class in the IDE source code.

For example, running 'gba3 -x <library path> .list' will return the 
contents of the '.list' file included in the library executable, that 
you can parse to get all the exported classes.

Regards,

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Benoît Minisini