Calling LoadLibrary from DllMain

Question

MSDN says:

It must not call the LoadLibrary or LoadLibraryEx function (or a function that calls these functions), because this may create dependen

Answer 1

I was working on a case that could require using LoadLibrary in DllMain, so while investigating found this discussion. An update on this from my todays experience

Reading this one can get really scary http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oleglv/archive/2003/10/28/56142.aspx . Not only various locks matter, but also the order in which the libs was passed to the linker. The case is say one bi

Now, I've tried this with vc9 under win7. Yes, so is it. Depending on the order of how the libs are passed to the linker, using LoadLibrary works or not. However, the same with vc11 under win8 works properly disregarding the link order. Application Verifier doesn't blame about that.

I'm not calling to use it this way right now and everywhere :) But just FYI, if it's the same with win10 and further - this might have more usefulness. Anyway seems that the loader mechanism under win8 undergone some noticeable changes.

Thanks.