dynlibs unit

The Dynlibs unit provides support for dynamically loading shared libraries. It is available only on those platforms that support shared libraries. The functionality available here may only be a part of the functionality available on each separate platform, in the interest of portability.

On UNIX platforms, using this unit will cause the program to be linked to the C library, as most shared libraries are implemented in C and the dynamical linker too.

Procedures and functions

FreeLibrary	function	For compatibility with Delphi/Windows: Unload a library.
GetLoadErrorStr	function	Return a description of the last error during load/get procedure address operations.
GetProcAddress	function	For compatibility with Delphi/Windows: Get the address of a procedure.
GetProcedureAddress	function	Get the address of a procedure or symbol in a dynamic library.
LoadLibrary	function	Load a dynamic library and return a handle to it.
SafeLoadLibrary	function	Saves the control word and loads a library.
UnloadLibrary	function	Unload a previously loaded library.

Types

HModule	type	Alias for TLibHandle type.
TLibHandle	type	Library handle type.

Constants

NilHandle	constant	Correctly typed Nil handle - returned on error by .
SharedSuffix	constant	Extension of shared library.