dlopen on iOS

[duzzell 0]

I was under the impression that dynamically loaded libraries are not allowed on iOS. I ran a 3rd party framework (Google Sign In for iOS) through Octoid and the resulting pascal file contains a call to dlopen in its initialization section. Wouldn't that be considerd a load of a dynamic library?

 

dlopen(MarshaledAString(libGoogleSignIn), RTLD_LAZY)

 

Thanks

[Dave Nottage 580]

2 hours ago, duzzell said:

I was under the impression that dynamically loaded libraries are not allowed on iOS.

What gave you that impression?

2 hours ago, duzzell said:

I ran a 3rd party framework (Google Sign In for iOS) through Octoid and the resulting pascal file contains a call to dlopen in its initialization section

This is a shortcoming of Octoid - it should not be generating that code for 3rd party frameworks. Incidentally, there is already an import for GoogleSignIn in Kastri, which includes "loader" (fake) methods to ensure that dependent frameworks are also linked in:

procedure AppAuthLoader; cdecl; external framework 'AppAuth';
procedure GoogleSignInLoader; cdecl; external framework 'GoogleSignIn';
procedure GoogleUtilitiesLoader; cdecl; external framework 'GoogleUtilities';
procedure GTMAppAuthLoader; cdecl; external framework 'GTMAppAuth';
procedure GTMSessionFetcherLoader; cdecl; external framework 'GTMSessionFetcher';

Good luck making GoogleSignIn work on iOS - see the latter comments in this issue regarding the problems I'm having.