Chapter 16. Dynamic Loading
An increasingly popular way of adding functionality to a project is to give a program the capability to dynamically load plug-ins, or modules. By doing this, your users can extend your project in new ways, which even you perhaps hadn't envisioned. Dynamic loading, then, is the process of loading compiled objects into a running program and executing some or all of the code from the loaded objects in the same context as the main executable.
This chapter begins with a discussion of the mechanics of dynamic modules and how they are used, and ends with example code for very simple module loading on GNU/Linux, along with the example code for a complementary dynamically loadable module. This chapter examines the principles ...
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