R devel - Sep 2007 - How can I list unregistered routines from loaded DLLs?

Hi,

I want to load DLLs that have been compiled in C or C++ (using
dyn.load), and then get a list of all routines contained in that DLL.
getRegisteredRoutines doesn't work, because the routines have not been
registered.  It's a catch-22 because I can't (so far as I can see)
register the routines without knowing their names, and I can't (so far
as I can see) get a list of their names unless they are registered.  Is
there a way around this, besides making guesses about the names and
testing them with is.loaded()?

Thanks in advance,
Jason

Shaw, Jason wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to load DLLs that have been compiled in C or C++ (using
> dyn.load), and then get a list of all routines contained in that DLL.
> getRegisteredRoutines doesn't work, because the routines have not been
> registered.  It's a catch-22 because I can't (so far as I can see)
> register the routines without knowing their names, and I can't (so far
> as I can see) get a list of their names unless they are registered.  Is
> there a way around this, besides making guesses about the names and
> testing them with is.loaded()?
You need tools external to R.  pedump (in the Rtools collection) can do 
it on Windows; objdump is a similar utility on Unix platforms.

Duncan Murdoch