GDNative Unix: fix shared lib loading, dlopen expects leading ./ to interpret as relative path.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/unix/os_unix.cpp b/drivers/unix/os_unix.cpp
index 31c8e4ade9..eeb3b31fc2 100644
--- a/drivers/unix/os_unix.cpp
+++ b/drivers/unix/os_unix.cpp
@@ -349,6 +349,12 @@ Error OS_Unix::open_dynamic_library(const String p_path, void *&p_library_handle
 
 	String path = p_path;
 
+	if (FileAccess::exists(path) && path.is_rel_path()) {
+		// dlopen expects a slash, in this case a leading ./ for it to be interpreted as a relative path,
+		//  otherwise it will end up searching various system directories for the lib instead and finally failing.
+		path = "./" + path;
+	}
+
 	if (!FileAccess::exists(path)) {
 		//this code exists so gdnative can load .so files from within the executable path
 		path = get_executable_path().get_base_dir().plus_file(p_path.get_file());