The Microsoft linker link.exe supports delay loading DLLs until a function
from the DLL is call. See this documentation
about the /DELAYLOAD: command line argument.
The GNU linker ld does not have, to the best of my knowledge,
a similar command line argument.
To work around this limitation, we instead use the binutils
program dlltool. See the documentation.
This program is usually used for creating new DLLs.
We instead create a delay load library for an existing
DLL.
This example shows delay loading the Windows DLL version.dll.
We call the GetFileVersionInfoW function. We also include
a delay load hook so that we can observe the DLL being delay loaded.