nagisa/rust_libloading

Bindings around the platform's dynamic library loading primitives with greatly improved memory safety.

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libloading

Bindings around the platform's dynamic library loading primitives with greatly improved memory safety. The most important safety guarantee of this library is the prevention of dangling Symbols that may occur after a Library is unloaded.

Using this library allows the loading of dynamic libraries, also known as shared libraries, as well as the use of the functions and static variables that these libraries may contain.

libloading is available to use under ISC (MIT-like) license.

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