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NAME

FLTK::Plugin - Portable loading of plugins

Description

This is a wrapper to make it simple to load plugins on various systems.

Functions

load_plugin

my $pointer = $plugin->load_plugin( $file, $symbol );

Will load the file as a plugin and then return a pointer to symbol in that file.

If symbol is undefined, it will return a non-zero value if the plugin loads but you cannot use this value for anything.

If there is any problem (file not found, does not load as a plugin, the symbol is not found) it will return null if there is any problem and print debugging info on STDERR.

Author

Sanko Robinson <sanko@cpan.org> - http://sankorobinson.com/

License and Legal

Copyright (C) 2008-2010 by Sanko Robinson <sanko@cpan.org>

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of The Artistic License 2.0. See the LICENSE file included with this distribution or notes on the Artistic License 2.0 for clarification.

When separated from the distribution, all original POD documentation is covered by the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License. See the clarification of the CCA-SA3.0.