Hi,

On Fri, 2011-10-14 at 10:49 +0200, Olivier Hoareau wrote:
> * My use case :
> 
> [A] is a main program written in C++
> [B] is a C++ "plugin" of [A], compiled in a shared library dynamically loaded 
> (dlopen-like functions)
> [CX] are a libphpX.so C shared libraries compiled with "--enable-embed", 
> where "X" is the PHP version number (5.4, 5.3, ..., 5.0)

> Do you have an idea on how to reach my use case ?

The simple answer is: You can't do this this way and you have to provide
a [B] for each version of PHP linking [CX].

If you really really really want to do this I see two ways, where the
first is close to what you are doing but still evil:

The approach is to add a Loader library which is loaded by [A] and then
first loads [CX] and then the current [B]. This is evil as PHP does not
guarantee API/ABI to stay the same over minor versions. So some random
function in libphp, which your [B] might be using, can change the
signature which will easily lead to hard to debug crashes of your
application.

The better approach is to create your own SAPI which exports a for your
purpose stable API which you then can load. Building a SAPI is not
really hard.
https://github.com/johannes/pconn-sapi/blob/master/pconnect-sapi.c is
probably one of the most simple SAPIs, there I'm basically exporting
three more abstracted functions: pconn_init_php(), pconn_shutdown_php()
and pconn_do_request() which in your case would form your stable API for
your new SAPI. (mind that my pconn_do_request() includes a TSRM
parameter, in case you don't need threaded execution, can be dropped,
else you probably have to abstracted it away (make it void* and export
clean APIs to keep thread context), too)

johannes



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