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Group:	Dynamically Linked Library
See also:	dlclose dlcall dlquery dlcallex

Function:		dlopen
Description:		dlopen loads a dynamically linked library.

Link:

DLL tutorial

Usage:	`handle = dlopen (n)`
Input:
	`n`	string, name of dll
Output:
	`handle`	scalar, handle to address this library

Note:

The library's handle is used to distinguish between several dlls if they contain functions with the same name.

Example:

// For UNIX: // compile the file randu.c in the examples directory with e.g. // gcc -shared -o randu.so randu.c h = dlopen("randu.so") ; maybe you must give the full path

Result:

dll "randu" is loaded

Example:

// For WINDOWS: h=dlopen("gplm.dll")

Result:

dll "gplm" is loaded