johnstarich / go-plugin-issues

A place to demonstrate issues encountered with the Golang plugin system

go-plugin-issues

Go plugin fails to load from c-shared lib

To recreate the issue, run make test. This will do a few things:

1. Compile and run a Go executable named loader
   • This loader will open the pow plugin and run it with no arguments.
   • This works as expected.
2. Compile a c-shared library with an exported function doit() named cloader.
   • This loader will be dynamically opened by the main.c executable and then run doit().
   • The doit() func will open the pow plugin and run it with no arguments.
   • This works on macOS, but crashes on Linux with fatal error: runtime: no plugin module data

You can also run make to recreate the issue on your native system plus a Linux system running in Docker.

See the most recent Travis builds here: https://travis-ci.com/JohnStarich/go-plugin-issues/builds