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fancycode committed Sep 21, 2014
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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
(`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
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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
`MemoryModule` is a library that can be used to load a DLL completely from
memory - without storing on the disk first.

See doc/readme.txt for more informations about the format of a DLL file and
See `doc/readme.txt` for more informations about the format of a DLL file and
a tutorial how they can be loaded directly.

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Awesome. I started transcribing doc/readme.txt to Markdown as well, and I'll make sure to send a pull request for it when I'm done!

Honestly, it would be better to just make the main README at the root of the repo be the only one. There's no reason to have a doc folder with one file, and it would make it better for the actual GitHub site.

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