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2    Copyright 2014 Renato Tegon Forti, Antony Polukhin
3    Copyright 2015-2019 Antony Polukhin
4    Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0.
5    (See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)
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8[section:introduction Motivation]
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10Adding 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.
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12This library was designed to simplify plugin development using C++ in a portable cross-platform manner.
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14Library provides a portable across platforms way to:
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16* load libraries
17* import any native functions and variables
18* make alias names for C++ mangled functions and symbols
19* query libraries for sections and exported symbols
20* self loading and self querying
21* getting program and module location by exported symbol
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