DLLs built using the recipe described in this chapter can be loaded at runtime in at least three different ways:
Using the Cygwin emulation of the POSIX dlopen / dlclose / dlsym API. Note however that the emulation is broken up until at least version b20.1, and dlopen(NULL) doesn't work at all.
Using the Windows LoadLibrary / FreeLibrary / GetProcAddress API.
Using libltdl, which is covered in more detail in Using GNU libltdl .
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