nagisa/rust_libloading
Bindings around the platform's dynamic library loading primitives with greatly improved memory safety. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
75/100
- Activity 95
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases no_readme
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 3952
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 31
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
1470 stars · 126 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
libloading is a Rust crate providing safe, cross-platform bindings around dynamic library loading primitives (dlopen/LoadLibrary). It lets programs load shared libraries at runtime and call their functions or access their symbols with compiler-enforced lifetime safety.
Use cases
- load a shared library at runtime in Rust
- call functions from a .so or .dll dynamically
- build a plugin system with runtime-loaded modules
- wrap dlopen and LoadLibrary with a safe API
- get symbols from a dynamic library safely
- load native libraries for FFI at runtime
When to choose
- you need to load shared libraries at runtime in Rust with memory safety
- you are building a plugin architecture that loads native modules
- you want a cross-platform alternative to calling dlopen/LoadLibrary directly
When to avoid
- you only need compile-time linking to a C library (use a -sys crate instead)
- you need to hide all platform behavioral differences between dynamic loaders
- you need to load non-native plugins like WASM or interpreted scripts
Facets
library · maturity stable
developer-tools developer-tools operating-systems cross-platform windows rust cross-platform ffi dynamic-library-loading shared-libraries dlopen loadlibrary plugin-system linux macos
9 sources
- homepage: https://docs.rs/libloading · fetched 2026-08-29 · f84b59335580
- site_page: https://docs.rs/ · fetched 2026-08-29 · 980aa96ba493
- site_page: https://docs.rs/crate/libloading/latest · fetched 2026-08-29 · 9a6fac04bb14
- site_page: https://docs.rs/crate/libloading/latest/features · fetched 2026-08-29 · 912f1ed345b6
- site_page: https://docs.rs/about · fetched 2026-08-29 · 29ab7986fbf5
- site_page: https://docs.rs/about/badges · fetched 2026-08-29 · 6588cac258af
- site_page: https://docs.rs/about/builds · fetched 2026-08-29 · 811231ca4680
- site_page: https://docs.rs/about/metadata · fetched 2026-08-29 · 0dcdccb2b2b2
- site_page: https://docs.rs/about/redirections · fetched 2026-08-29 · 1b1efd93105f
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| nagisa/rust_libloading | main | 75 |
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