Loading shared objects - How?

Forum: The Linux Kernel Hackers' Guide
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 19:31:19 GMT
From: Wesley Terpstra <terpstra@unixg.ubc.ca>

Does anyone know where I could find a good document about how shared objects are bound to an ELF executable before runtime? I would like to be able to import symbols from a .so file at runtime based on user input and call the imported symbol (a function). I suspect gdb must do this since it loads shared libraries for programs one debugs and allows one to call the imported functions. I hope to do this as portably as possible. Can anyone out there recommend a document? Thanks.