[bradyriddle]

Man, this is gonna reveal some ignorance. But here goes. Please correct me where I'm wrong

.so/.dylib/.dll's typically get linked at load time, right? Like we aren't all manually loading dylibs in our source code. I guess I'm surprised on a platform as locked down as ios that they even allow you to link anything at run time.

chatgpt gives me this snippet but I have no way of knowing if this is roughly how it would look.

Class SBApplication = objc_getClass("SBApplication");

SEL launchSel = sel_registerName("launch");

id app = [SBApplication getAppWithBundleID:@"com.example.app"];

objc_msgSend(app, launchSel);

[freeone3000]

You can put in an autoload section and the runtime linker will load it for you, but you absolutely can load a DLL and its symbol names at runtime. Usually this is done for boring reasons like compatibility with multiple versions of an external library.