Designing a Plugin ("Microkernel") Architecture in C++ | Software Coding Tutorials Channel
Today, I will show you how to design a Plugin Architecture (aka Microkernel) in C++.
A plugin architecture allows a program to load external modules at runtime that implement a predefined interface, enabling the software to be extended without modifying the core application.
In this tutorial, I will demonstrate the use of interface, creation of DLL, and using LoadLibrary and GetProcessAddress to load/retrieve functions within the DLLs. I will show that the plugin manager will identify if the DLL is an actual plugin, and can be loaded or not.
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