Use dlopen? I haven’t tried this in Go, but if you want a binary that optionally... | Hacker News

Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit

		CGamesPlay 2 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Go is portable, until it isn't Use dlopen? I haven’t tried this in Go, but if you want a binary that optionally includes features from an external library, you want to use dlopen to load it.

immibis 2 days ago [–]

It only works in a dynamically-linked binary, because the dynamic linker needs to be loaded.

CGamesPlay 13 hours ago | [–]

That makes sense. Some digging turns up some workarounds; the best I found was https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/releases/tag/3.1

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact