From 064407d3c9d30eb8e170f1846531513b13850e08 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gunnar Beutner <gunnar.beutner@netways.de>
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2014 09:05:12 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Fix dynamic_cast problem

fixes #7586
---
 lib/base/utility.cpp | 2 +-
 lib/base/value.hpp   | 3 +--
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/base/utility.cpp b/lib/base/utility.cpp
index d96139442..1f6847cd9 100644
--- a/lib/base/utility.cpp
+++ b/lib/base/utility.cpp
@@ -330,7 +330,7 @@ Utility::LoadExtensionLibrary(const String& library)
 		    << boost::errinfo_file_name(path));
 	}
 #else /* _WIN32 */
-	void *hModule = dlopen(path.CStr(), RTLD_NOW);
+	void *hModule = dlopen(path.CStr(), RTLD_NOW | RTLD_GLOBAL);
 
 	if (hModule == NULL) {
 		BOOST_THROW_EXCEPTION(std::runtime_error("Could not load library '" + path + "': " + dlerror()));
diff --git a/lib/base/value.hpp b/lib/base/value.hpp
index e6b106738..6aa28eef4 100644
--- a/lib/base/value.hpp
+++ b/lib/base/value.hpp
@@ -99,8 +99,7 @@ public:
 
 		Object::Ptr object = boost::get<Object::Ptr>(m_Value);
 
-		if (!object)
-			return shared_ptr<T>();
+		ASSERT(object);
 
 		shared_ptr<T> tobject = dynamic_pointer_cast<T>(object);
 
-- 
2.40.0