std::runtime::dylib

std::runtime::dylib is the runtime interface used by std::dylib.

Application code should use std::dylib instead of this module. This page documents the exact shipped runtime module for stdlib implementers and alternate stdlib roots.

Surface#

• supported() -> bool
• open(path, flags) -> u64
• open_self(flags) -> u64
• symbol(handle, name) -> u64
• close(handle) -> i64
• last_error_ptr() -> u64
• lazy() -> i64
• now() -> i64
• local() -> i64
• global() -> i64

The functions return raw handles, raw symbol addresses, and platform flag bits. supported() reports whether the bundled runtime has a hosted dynamic loader backend for the current target. 0 means no handle or no address was produced. last_error_ptr() returns a borrowed C string pointer owned by the platform dynamic loader.

The shipped implementation delegates to std::runtime::posix::dylib.

Contract#

This module is intentionally low-level:

• It does not own handles.
• It does not copy loader error strings.
• It does not validate symbol signatures.
• It keeps platform constants behind functions so the stdlib can query the runtime boundary without hard-coding target-specific numeric values in Silk.

std::dylib is responsible for converting these primitives into Result values and handle wrappers.