dlopen ( path -- dll )
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dlsym ( name dll -- alien )

Vocabulary
alien.libraries

Inputs

path	a pathname string

Outputs

dll	a DLL handle

Word description
Opens a native library and outputs a handle which may be passed to dlsym or dlclose.

Errors
Throws an error if the library could not be found, or if loading fails for some other reason.

Notes
This is the low-level facility used to implement add-library. Use the latter instead.

Definition

USING: alien.strings ;

IN: alien.libraries

: dlopen ( path -- dll ) native-string>alien (dlopen) ;