Dynamically Loaded Libraries Outside the Standard

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Explains practical techniques for using dlopen/LoadLibrary and tools like dumpbin/objdump and Application Verifier to diagnose real problems: delay-loading can make function addresses change at runtime, symbol resolution and casting rules are undefined across languages, plugins are built as drop-in DSOs exposing factory instances (demo finds multiple Python installs via exported instances and works), and live update/unload breaks TLS destructors because vendor no-delete flags and refcounting prevent safe unloading.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:29Dynamic Link Libraries
3. 0:45Dynamic Linking vs Dynamic Loading
4. 2:23MacOS Bundles
5. 4:07Dynamic Loading Libraries
6. 6:00Dynamic Loading APIs
7. 7:21Function Pointer Declaration
8. 8:35Win32 API Example
9. 9:24OBG Dump
10. 9:41How to use it
11. 9:57Reference Count
12. 11:40Use Cases
13. 11:56Dependent Libraries
14. 12:11Explanation of Dependent Libraries
15. 13:20Explanation of Dynamic Linking
16. 14:21Dynamic Linking with Delay Loading
17. 14:53Crossplatform Delay Loading
18. 16:44Surprise of Daily Loading
19. 18:45Dynamic Loading API
20. 19:07Short Answer
21. 19:38A Pointer
22. 20:06Dynamic Entities
23. 20:38Function Interface
24. 22:35Dynamic Loading
25. 23:00Declaration
26. 23:37Two Loadable Libraries
27. 24:16API Compatible
28. 24:48Example
29. 27:24Plugin System
30. 30:51Plugin
31. 32:26Open Plugins
32. 32:43Map Function
33. 32:57Demo
34. 33:30Questions
35. 36:51Unloading
36. 38:51Object Model
37. 40:33Threat Local Storage
38. 42:09Memory Locker
39. 47:18Question
40. 48:49Application Verifier
41. 49:25Application Verifier UI
42. 50:39Summary

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