• A dynamic-link library (DLL) is a shared library in the Microsoft Windows or OS/2 operating system. A DLL can contain executable code (functions), data...
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  • In computing, a dynamic linker is the part of an operating system that loads and links the shared libraries needed by an executable when it is executed...
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    static library) or of .so (shared object, dynamically linked library). Some systems might have multiple names for a dynamically linked library. These...
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  • is created. A dynamically linked library (dynamic-link library, or DLL, under Windows and OS/2; shareable image under OpenVMS; dynamic shared object,...
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  • compile-time/link-time. There are several advantages to statically linking libraries with an executable instead of dynamically linking them. The most...
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  • Dynamic loading is a mechanism by which a computer program can, at run time, load a library (or other binary) into memory, retrieve the addresses of functions...
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    elimination Dynamic dispatch Dynamic library Dynamic linker Dynamic loading Dynamic-link library External variable Library Loader Name decoration Prelinking...
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  • operating system supports a form of shared libraries known as "dynamic-link libraries", which are code libraries that can be used by multiple processes while...
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  • Loader (computing) (category Computer libraries)
    binding Dynamic binding (computing) Dynamic dead code elimination Dynamic dispatch Dynamic library Dynamic linker Dynamic loading Dynamic-link library GNU...
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    MinGW does not rely on third-party C runtime dynamic-link library (DLL) files, and because the runtime libraries are not distributed using the GNU General...
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