Consider adding libloading::Library::this()

[MatrixDev]

Currently Library struct has only one method for creation - Library::new(). It would be really nice to add Library::this() as well. It is already implemented for unix and windows anyways.

So instead of writing this:

#[cfg(unix)]
fn open_self(..) -> Result<Library> {
    Ok(Library::from(libloading::os::unix::Library::this()))
}
#[cfg(windows)]
fn open_self(..) -> Result<Library> {
    Ok(Library::from(libloading::os::windows::Library::this()?))
}

let library = open_self();

Users can just simply write:

let library = Library::this();

Yes, libloading::os::unix::Library::this() cannot fail. But it doesn't really matter when you're writing cross-platform code, as you need to handle errors from everywhere anyways. This can be considered as a very useful helper.

[nagisa]

The behaviour between the two environments is sufficiently distinct in what symbols are made available that a common cross-platform wrapper isn't really feasible.

The documentation for the methods calls it out too.

[MatrixDev]

Thanks for a quick reply. You can close this issue if there are really no common symbols that can be accessed.

[nagisa]

Thank you for taking time to request a change regardless.