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Copyright 2014 Renato Tegon Forti, Antony Polukhin

Copyright 2015-2021 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

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