How to unmangle exported symbols from C++ in dynamic libraries in XCode on OSX
- by Gerald
I've been trying to develop a dynamic library in C++ that can be run-time loaded in an application. I finally got it working, but it's a little ugly. I have a function that takes a pointer to a C++ class as an argument, which looks like this:
bool registerGrindPlugin( Grind::PluginManager* mgr );
But of course it's being exported as:
_Z19registerGrindPluginPN5Grind13PluginManagerE
I tried a .c file with a simple function and it exported fine as "registerGrindPlugin", but of course I can't pass a C++ class as the argument that way.
Soo... my question is, is there a way to unmangle or alias the exported symbol so that I don't have to use a monstrosity like Z19registerGrindPluginPN5Grind13PluginManagerE in my dlsym call?
I did see something about -alias_list as a linker option, but I haven't quite figured out how to use it in XCode. If that is the solution, can somebody provide some more details on how to use this?
