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- Copyright 2014 Renato Tegon Forti, Antony Polukhin
- Copyright 2015-2019 Antony Polukhin
- Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0.
- (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]
- 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.
- This library was designed to simplify plugin development using C++ in a portable cross-platform manner.
- Library provides a portable across platforms way to:
- * load libraries
- * import any native functions and variables
- * make alias names for C++ mangled functions and symbols
- * query libraries for sections and exported symbols
- * self loading and self querying
- * getting program and module location by exported symbol
- [endsect]
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