[mohsenCFDonline]

Dear all
Does anyone knows how I can get access to the functions inside the shared libraries (.so) in OpenFOAM?

Regards
Mohsen

[Blanco]

Yes, you can find the source of the lib under the src dir.
Use this as an example:

grep -R libforces.so $FOAM_SRC

You will get many results that can be used to identify "where" is the source code for libforces.so (in this case src/postProcessing/functionObjects/forces)

Regards

[haze_1986]

Hi, I think he meant accessing variables of the objects created in the libraries?

[tomislav_maric]

A library is a bunch of object code, containing the translation of the C++ we humans write to machine language. Basically, every OpenFOAM utility accesses library functions, whose implementation is stored in the .so file.

If you are writing your utility, all you need to do is to include the header:

#include "someClass.H"

use the library in the utiliity application

someClass someObject; 

someObject.someMemberFunction();

And that is it. The linker program will take care of linking your utility application with the appropriate .so object file. That is why you need to edit `Make/options` and provide something along these lines:

-I/path/to/library/lnInclude


-L/path/to/library/file
-lsomeLibrary

In order for `wmake` to tell the linker where the library file is located, and set up the compiler to know where to find `someLibrary.H`.

If you are using function objects, you will be doing this automatically. Still, you need to add something like `functionObjectsLibs ("libsomeLibrary.so")` in the control dict.

Btw, what exactly do you want to do?