[C] Winapi Call Dynamically and easily

[mcp]

I was referring to the ref count problem: that can be trivially solved by having correct pairing of Load/FreeLibrary (and doing what i proposed earlier with a functor would do the right thing). I do not see how that is solved with the c++14 approach you posted? How are LoadLibrary / FreeLibrary calls matched without leaking library handles?

edit: ah got it, it's the shared pointer that points a custom deleter to FreeLibrary. ok. However, for all practical purposes this just keeps libraries loaded until the thread exits - which may or may not be what you want - you have no control over it.

edit2: to clarify, the functor approach was suggested because it inherently avoids unnecessary API lookups, e.g., if you invoke an API in a loop, you'll do the same lookup over and over again because you have coupled lookup with invocation of the API. The functor approach however decouples lookup from invoking, is thread-safe by definition and doesn't need any synchronization mechanisms.