Making a love EXE download a DLL and then use it without restarting?

[Guard13007]

I will be doing some testing later anyhow, but I figured I'd ask real quick in case someone else has tried it.

Is it possible to download a DLL file to the same directory as a fused Love game and then use it without restarting the game? I would imagine so, but I don't know the internals of such things. :/

[ReFreezed]

Additional DLLs, just like Lua files, aren't loaded until you require() them so I'd imagine you can do that, though you're probably gonna run into problems in the OS at some point if your program tries to modify its install folder. That's what the save directory is for. (See info in love.filesystem.isFused)

[Guard13007]

That's a good point I didn't consider, I will make sure I use the save directory if attempting to download next to the exe does not work.

My main concern with it not working is if I attempt to require it first, then download it, I hope there isn't some cache that would interfere saying nah I already know that doesn't exist.

[ReFreezed]

Well, the cache is package.loaded. If a module isn't there then require() tries to load it. That's also how you reload modules - by removing them from package.loaded and requiring them again. Not sure if reloading works flawlessly with DLL files. I've never tried that.