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+dlcompat for Darwin
+=========================
+
+This is dlcompat, a small library that emulates the dlopen()
+interface on top of Darwin's dyld API.
+
+dlcompat allows loading a ".dylib" library (as long as the RTLD_LOCAL 
+flag isn't passed to dlopen()). It can be configured to yield a warning 
+when trying to close it (dynamic libraries cannot currently be unloaded).
+
+It automatically searches for modules in several directories when no 
+absolute path is specified and the module is not found in the current 
+directory.
+
+The paths searched are those specified in the environment variables
+LD_LIBRARY_PATH and DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH plus /lib, /usr/local/lib and 
+/usr/lib or the path specified in the environment variable 
+DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH.
+
+In the default install the behavior of dlsym is to automatically prepend
+an underscore to passed in symbol names, this allows easier porting of
+applications which were written specifically for ELF based lifeforms.
+
+Installation
+--------------
+Type:
+	./configure
+	make
+	sudo make install
+
+This will compile the source file, generate both a static and shared
+library called libdl and install it into /usr/local/lib. The header
+file dlfcn.h will be installed in /usr/local/include.
+
+If you want to place the files somewhere else, run
+
+  make clean
+  ./configure --prefix=<prefix>
+  make
+  sudo make install
+
+where <prefix> is the hierarchy you want to install into, e.g. /usr
+for /usr/lib and /usr/include (_NOT_ recommended!).
+
+To enable debugging output (useful for me), run
+
+  make clean
+  ./configure --enable-debug
+  make
+  sudo make install
+  
+If you want old dlcompat style behavior of not prepending the underscore
+on calls to dlsym then type:
+
+  make clean
+  ./configure --enable-fink
+  make
+  sudo make install
+
+Usage
+-------
+Software that uses GNU autoconf will likely check for a library called
+libdl, that's why I named it that way. For software that doesn't find
+the library on its own, you must add a '-ldl' to the appropriate
+Makefile (or environment) variable, usually LIBS.
+
+If you installed dlcompat into a directory other than /usr/local/lib,
+you must tell the compiler where to find it. Add '-L<prefix>/lib' to
+LDFLAGS (or CFLAGS) and '-I<prefix>/include' to CPPFLAGS (or CFLAGS).
+
+Notes
+-----
+If you are writing new software and plan to have Mac OX X compatibility you
+should look at the dyld api's in /usr/include/mach-o/dyld.h, rather than
+using dlcompat, using the native api's is the supported method of loading
+dynamically on Mac OS X, if you want an small example, look at dlfcn_simple.c,
+which should help get you started.
+
+Also note that the functions in dlcompat are not thread safe, and while it is not
+POSIX spec compliant, it is about as close to compliance as it is going to get though.
+
+You can always get the latest version from opendarwin cvs:
+
+  cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@anoncvs.opendarwin.org:/cvs/od login
+  cvs -z3 -d :pserver:anonymous@anoncvs.opendarwin.org:/cvs/od \
+               co -d dlcompat proj/dlcompat
+
+
+It is hoped that this library will be useful, and as bug free as possible, if you find
+any bugs please let us know about them so they can be fixed.
+
+Please send bug reports to Peter O'Gorman <ogorman@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+Thanks.
+