[Qt-interest] QLibrary cannot resolve symbol

[Thiago Macieira]

On Wednesday, 13 de July de 2011 18:37:43 Anatoly Burakov wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> I'm trying to load a shared library using QLibrary. I done it a
> million times before, so i know all the basics. However, for some
> reason, this time it doesn't work.
> 
> I have an exported C "instance" function. The output from readelf is
> the following:
> $ readelf -s libmylib.so | grep instance
>    180: 0000000000002e70    61 FUNC    LOCAL  DEFAULT   11 instance

Please add the -D switch to the readelf command.

In any case, note the "Bind" type LOCAL. It means it's not a global symbol, it 
cannot be found outside its original .c or .cpp. You need to remove the 
"static" keyword.

> When i try to resolve it with QLibrary but it says it can't resolve
> this symbol. I also tried doing everything through QPluginLoader -
> same thing, the library is not a valid plugin.
> 
> What could be the reason? KDevelop 4.2.3, latest Kubuntu x64.

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