Re: [GD-Windows] loading a dll from memory

[Ben C. <be...@gu...>]

On Sunday, January 20, 2002, 10:55:56 PM, someone wrote:

> Hi,

> Is there a way to load a dynamic library from the memory instead of
> a file? I have the dynamic library in the memory and I don't want to
> write it to the winchester and use LoadLibrary() if it isn't necessery...

 Unfortunately, I believe this isn't possible, due to the way Windows
handles shared areas of DLLs by memory-mapping to the file itself - I
certainly looked around for a way to do it a couple of years ago back
and couldn't find one.

 That said, if you just want to load a simple DLL you've created (ie
no sharing between instances, etc), then I think it's fairly
straightforward to implement your own PE format loader -
http://www.winehq.org/ would probably be a good place to look if you
did decide to try that.

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