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

[Gabor S. <ts...@co...>]

Thanks everybody!
Well, it seems that writing out the dll to the winchester will be the best
way.
I wouldn't like to get to know PE and the internal win32 functions... :)

Cheers
  Gabor Simko

> 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
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: gam...@li...
> [mailto:gam...@li...]On Behalf Of
> 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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