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Copyright 2014 Renato Tegon Forti, Antony Polukhin
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Copyright 2015-2019 Antony Polukhin
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Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0.
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(See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)
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[section:introduction Motivation]
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Adding a specific features to an existing software applications at runtime could be useful in many cases. Such extensions, or plugins, are usually implemented using Dynamic Library Modules (DLL,SO/DSO) loaded at runtime.
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This library was designed to simplify plugin development using C++ in a portable cross-platform manner.
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Library provides a portable across platforms way to:
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* load libraries
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* import any native functions and variables
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* make alias names for C++ mangled functions and symbols
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* query libraries for sections and exported symbols
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* self loading and self querying
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* getting program and module location by exported symbol
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[endsect]
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