dynamicly linking DLLs 1

[garwain]

I'm looking for resources or just some general feedback about ways to accomplish this.

What I want is to be able to design a program so that it'll be able to accept addon modules, just by dropping a DLL file into the program directory. Is there a way to have the program decide at runtime to load XYZ.dll? For example, I have a program with a listbox showing all DLLs in the directory, knowing that they all have a function called LoadMe(), then by selecting the DLL, and hitting a button, it executes the LoadMe function for that DLL?

Any feedback is appreciated, even it you just tell me I'm crazy (of course I already know that much).

Thanks.
Ben Martin

 

[michaenh]

Hi

take a look at this thread:

thread102-515572

But what does the LoadMe() func do? Does it return a value? Or is it a proc?

cheers,
mha

 

[michaenh]

sorry about the link..
try again..

link
thread102-515572

 

[garwain]

Thanks. That function looks like exactally what I was looking for.

With the design of my program, LoadMe() would perform all the necessary tasks after the DLL has been loaded. There could be other exported functions, if other modules need to access the DLL for certain reasons, but in my program design, each DLL is supposed to be a pretty much independant module.

Anyway, I look forward to finding to the to try out the code you suggested.

Thanks.