Why so ugly?

cecloader.h

/*!
 * @brief Create a new libCEC instance.
 * @param configuration The configuration to pass to libCEC
 * @param strLib The name of and/or path to libCEC
 * @return An instance of ICECAdapter or NULL on error.
 */
CEC::ICECAdapter *LibCecInitialise(CEC::libcec_configuration *configuration, const char *strLib = NULL)
{
  if (!g_libCEC)
  {
#if defined(__APPLE__)
    g_libCEC = dlopen(strLib ? strLib : "libcec." CEC_LIB_VERSION_MAJOR_STR ".dylib", RTLD_LAZY);
#elif defined(__ANDROID__)
    g_libCEC = dlopen(strLib ? strLib : "libcec.so", RTLD_LAZY);
#else
    g_libCEC = dlopen(strLib ? strLib : "libcec.so." CEC_LIB_VERSION_MAJOR_STR, RTLD_LAZY);
#endif
    if (!g_libCEC)
    {
      cout << dlerror() << endl;
      return NULL;
    }
  }

  typedef void* _LibCecInitialise(CEC::libcec_configuration *);
  _LibCecInitialise* LibCecInitialise = (_LibCecInitialise*) dlsym(g_libCEC, "CECInitialise");
  if (!LibCecInitialise)
  {
    cout << "cannot find CECInitialise" << endl;
    return NULL;
  }

  return (CEC::ICECAdapter*) LibCecInitialise(configuration);
}