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Sumeet
Sumeet

Reputation: 779

How to reload implicitly linked dll

I am facing one problem with implicitly linked dll. I have one application written in C++ which is implicitly linked to dll. After particular number of iteration, the dll functions do not work as per expectations. I want to reload this dll so that the freshly loaded dll work properly. The problem is that since the dll is linked implicitly to the application, I am not able to reload the dll during runtime. Is there any way so that the implicitly linked dll can reload again? Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2465

Answers (2)

JACH
JACH

Reputation: 1048

I'm facing the same issue. What I did is that I created an interface class. The class that implements the interface loads the dll in its constructor (LoadLibrary), and unloads it on the destructor (FreeLibrary).

A quick note: This approach is working fine with Visual Studio 2008, but for some reason, it's not working with visual studio 98

Upvotes: 2

David Heffernan
David Heffernan

Reputation: 612954

You cannot force a re-load of an implicitly linked DLL. You will need to use explicit linking.

Upvotes: 2

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