OpenEuphoria

Re: Help with plugin concept

• Posted by Robert Craig <rds at RapidEuphoria.com> Feb 13, 2004
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The trick where a Euphoria program modifies an include file
just before including it, does not work with the translator
or the binder, and in the next release it won't work with
the interpreter either.

We may eventually need some new language construct
in this area, but currently you can easily convert
Euphoria code to a .dll, and you can pass Euphoria data
(atoms and sequences) to it, and get Euphoria data returned.
The only problem is, as with all .dlls, you can't easily
share your global variables. You'd have to define a
kind of mini-API, that the .dll (plugin) authors would support.

You can also, of course, run a separate Euphoria program,
via system() etc., and communicate with it via files,
or maybe even shared memory.

Regards,
    Rob Craig
    Rapid Deployment Software
    http://www.RapidEuphoria.com