https://github.com/fancycode/MemoryModule

Library to load a DLL from memory.
https://github.com/fancycode/MemoryModule

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Library to load a DLL from memory.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/fancycode/MemoryModule
• Owner: fancycode
• License: mpl-2.0
• Created: 2010-10-23T22:30:03.000Z (about 14 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-01-03T15:08:02.000Z (11 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-22T09:51:47.632Z (about 2 months ago)
• Language: C
• Homepage: http://www.joachim-bauch.de/tutorials/loading-a-dll-from-memory/
• Size: 253 KB
• Stars: 2,815
• Watchers: 171
• Forks: 755
• Open Issues: 55
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: readme.md
  • License: LICENSE.txt

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README

        
MemoryModule

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The default windows API functions to load external libraries into a program

(`LoadLibrary`, `LoadLibraryEx`) only work with files on the filesystem.  It's

therefore impossible to load a DLL from memory.

But sometimes, you need exactly this functionality (e.g. you don't want to

distribute a lot of files or want to make disassembling harder).  Common

workarounds for this problems are to write the DLL into a temporary file

first and import it from there.  When the program terminates, the temporary

file gets deleted.

`MemoryModule` is a library that can be used to load a DLL completely from

memory - without storing on the disk first.

See `doc/readme.rst` for more informations about the format of a DLL file and

a tutorial how they can be loaded directly.