introduction.qbk

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[section:introduction Motivation]

Adding a specific features to an existing software applications at runtime could be useful in many cases. Such extensions, or plugins, are usually implemented using Dynamic Library Modules (DLL,SO/DSO) loaded at runtime. 

This library was designed to simplify plugin development using C++ in a portable cross-platform manner. 

Library provides a portable across platforms way to:

* load libraries
* import any native functions and variables
* make alias names for C++ mangled functions and symbols
* query libraries for sections and exported symbols
* self loading and self querying
* getting program and module location by exported symbol

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