FlexDLL

FlexDLL is an application designed to address the DLL files issue of not being able to refer to symbols defined in the main application. The program relies on the static and dynamic linkers and has the role of solving the problem via the common Microsoft environments, including, but not limited to MS linker, Visual Studio, GNU linkers and compilers or MinGW mode.

DLL or Dynamically-Linked Libraries works as a plugin mechanism in Windows and have the role of improving the code sharing and modularity. While various programs rely on DLL at runtime to load various objects, Windows makes it rather daunting to implement plugins in this matter.

In fact, users attempting to create DLL files from a set of object files are likely to encounter a very common problem, namely that the libraries cannot refer to symbols that are commonly defined in the main app or other DLL files. In order for this to work smoothly, the linkers used need to resolve all the symbols correctly. According to the developer, the tool is capable of implementing the dlopen POSIX API, but is not designed to be fully conformant. What this means is that even though it addresses the issues, it does not respect the official order for symbol resolution.