DynamicLibrary DynamicLibrary::getPermanentLibrary(const char *filename,
std::string *errMsg) {
SmartScopedLock<true> lock(*SymbolsMutex);
-
- void *handle = dlopen(filename, RTLD_LAZY|RTLD_GLOBAL);
+ int flags = RTLD_LAZY | RTLD_GLOBAL;
+#if defined(__APPLE__)
+ // RTLD_FIRST is an apple specific flag which causes dlsym() to search only
+ // the module specified in |filename|, and not dependent modules. This
+ // behavior would be desirable for other platforms as well, except that
+ // there's not a good way to implement it.
+ flags |= RTLD_FIRST;
+#endif
+ void *handle = dlopen(filename, flags);
if (!handle) {
if (errMsg) *errMsg = dlerror();
return DynamicLibrary();