Dynamic loading
Mechanism by which a computer program can load a library (or other binary) into memory / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Not to be confused with dynamic load.
"Dynamically loaded library" redirects here. Not to be confused with dynamically linked library.
Dynamic loading is a mechanism by which a computer program can, at run time, load a library (or other binary) into memory, retrieve the addresses of functions and variables contained in the library, execute those functions or access those variables, and unload the library from memory. It is one of the 3 mechanisms by which a computer program can use some other software; the other two are static linking and dynamic linking. Unlike static linking and dynamic linking, dynamic loading allows a computer program to start up in the absence of these libraries, to discover available libraries, and to potentially gain additional functionality.[1][2]