well, in that case, yes you should be able to do this. When I stated that the **windows linker** doesn't allow this, I meant the `ld`-like program, not the `dlopen`-like program.

There's also the possibility of specifying them as delayed lookup functions, but the documentation explicitly says the filename of the dll you use to do the runtime matching will be compared against its internal name before it will accept it. I dunno why it would care.