Add Linux support to `platform` and `gfx`. (#1744)

3 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/source/core/slang-downstream-compiler.cpp b/source/core/slang-downstream-compiler.cpp
index b9b5a059d..1a81fcac8 100644
--- a/source/core/slang-downstream-compiler.cpp
+++ b/source/core/slang-downstream-compiler.cpp
@@ -610,6 +610,11 @@ static SlangResult _locateFXCCompilers(const String& path, ISlangSharedLibraryLo
 
 static SlangResult _locateGlslangCompilers(const String& path, ISlangSharedLibraryLoader* loader, DownstreamCompilerSet* set)
 {
+#if SLANG_UNIX_FAMILY
+    // On unix systems we need to ensure pthread is loaded first.
+    ComPtr<ISlangSharedLibrary> pthreadLibrary;
+    DefaultSharedLibraryLoader::load(loader, path, "pthread", pthreadLibrary.writeRef());
+#endif
     ComPtr<ISlangSharedLibrary> sharedLibrary;
     if (SLANG_SUCCEEDED(DefaultSharedLibraryLoader::load(loader, path, "slang-glslang", sharedLibrary.writeRef())))
     {
diff --git a/source/core/slang-platform.cpp b/source/core/slang-platform.cpp
index 20dfed5a8..e46851095 100644
--- a/source/core/slang-platform.cpp
+++ b/source/core/slang-platform.cpp
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ SLANG_COMPILE_TIME_ASSERT(E_OUTOFMEMORY == SLANG_E_OUT_OF_MEMORY);
 {
     handleOut = nullptr;
 
-	void* h = dlopen(platformFileName, RTLD_NOW | RTLD_LOCAL);
+	void* h = dlopen(platformFileName, RTLD_NOW | RTLD_GLOBAL);
 	if(!h)
 	{
 #if 0
diff --git a/source/slang/slang-check.cpp b/source/slang/slang-check.cpp
index 7f378f7b7..cfc8c504c 100644
--- a/source/slang/slang-check.cpp
+++ b/source/slang/slang-check.cpp
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ namespace Slang
             if (SLANG_FAILED(locator(m_downstreamCompilerPaths[int(type)], m_sharedLibraryLoader, m_downstreamCompilerSet)))
             {
                 // If the locator reported a failure the first time we invoked
-                // it, then we will invoke it against with a wrapper shared librar
+                // it, then we will invoke it against with a wrapper shared library
                 // loader that reported library load failures to our diagnost `sink`.
                 //
                 // This means that in the case of failure the user will see a listing