Thread: Loader question

So for each major version of the engine, you build a separate shared library. The loader acts as a proxy such that the game loads the loader, and the loader figures out which shared library should in turn be loaded. If this wasn't done, users would have to edit their metamod config to point at a specific shared library depending on what HL game engine their mod used.

Now I haven't touched the loader code in quite a while, so its possible metamod has advanced and made it easier to do with newer metamod APIs (especially considering CSS finally moved on to orangebox, and some of the loader cruft is there to deal with the episode 1 engine, which now we don't have to deal with).