lazyload equivalent in linux?

[tkavan01]

I'm writing an application that supports different pieces of hardware that have different supporting libraries. When running on any given system some libraries will not be present in the system(and they won't be needed), however in linux it appears all libraries linked to when creating my application must be present on the system(even if they will never be called).

Solaris provides lazyload which lets me this easily. Is there anything in linux that would let me distribute a single binary(source is available to users, but they mostly won't care and probably won't recompile) that won't need all the libraries at run time...

[the_unforgiven]

What you're looking for is dlopen()/dlsym()
Especially, check out the RTLD_LAZY flag.

[tkavan01]

thank you, that does what i want, but boy is it going to make my code ugly!