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by klauspost 1218 days ago
This could be very useful for a project I am just starting on.

No documentation, and example has no content makes the learning curve a bit steep.

Does anyone have any pointers on how to use this?
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totallygamerjet 1218 days ago
It’s pretty simple to use if you are familiar with dlopen and friends.

Just call purego.Dlopen(“libname.so”, purego.RTLD_GLOBAL)

Take the returned library (make sure to check for errors with purego.Dlerror() first) and call purego.Dlsym(lib, “cfuncName”). If it exists than u can call it with either purego.SyscallN or purego.RegisterFunc

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mook 1217 days ago
It would be good to have more documentation on usage, though; things like how to deal with struct padding (or packed structs), common OS API types (presumably manual munging of UCS2/UTF16 is needed for Windows), etc; at least to mention that it's unchanged from …/x/sys?

It's easier with dlopen because it's still C and therefore you have the normal headers…

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mkm40 1217 days ago
+1 for additional examples or documentation.

Particularly an example that takes a c struct pointer would be awesome.

What happens to const char* return values that are null ? I think it is empty string, but either test case or doc confirming it would be awesome

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viraptor 1218 days ago
The example seems straightforward: Include this package, and your usual os calls start going through their "fakecgo" path.
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