in reply to a use for Win32::LoadLibrary()

I, for one, have never understood why Windows still has such a primitive way of supporting libraries ... no versioning.

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Re^2: a use for Win32::LoadLibrary()
by wazoox (Prior) on Oct 17, 2011 at 10:46 UTC
    I'm a strict Unixian, but apparently Windows supports some form of library versioning since Windows XP. According to this page, true DLL numbering even became standard in Visual Studio 2010 (better late than never).
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Re^2: a use for Win32::LoadLibrary()
by afoken (Chancellor) on Oct 15, 2011 at 20:16 UTC

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      Are .so files versioned?

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