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

[Matt D. <ma...@co...>]

Hi,

It is possible.  We did it once in a company I worked for.  We had the
ability to pack dll's and an exe into one exe which was compressed.  A stub
decompressed the executables in memory.  I cannot remember the exact details
as it was done by another programmer at out company but I can remember it
being a pain in the butt and it was done through low-level trickery (needing
knowledge of the PE32 format) rather than any Win32 API calls.

Sorry I'm not much help, but I know it is possible.


Matt Davies
Programmer, Confounding Factor
ma...@co...
www.confounding-factor.com




-----Original Message-----
From: gam...@li...
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Ben Carter
Sent: 21 January 2002 01:16
To: gamedev-windows
Subject: Re: [GD-Windows] loading a dll from memory


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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