How to check dll's reference count? How to know where the dll was loaded?

Question

As you know, if the call to LoadLibrary specifies a DLL module already mapped into the address space of the calling process, the function simply returns a handle of the DLL and increments the module's reference count.

Somewhere, I need to get the reference count of a dll. How to get the dll's reference count? How to know where the dll was loaded? Thanks.

Answer 1

I googled it, and found this article which claims to provide the answer. Sorry I couldn't be more helpful:

Answer 2

If it is a non programmatic way (thanks to C.Johnson for giving that perspective), WinDBG could be helpful

http://windbg.info/doc/1-common-cmds.html#10_modules

Look at !dlls and it's variants.

!dll - all loaded modules with load count

EDIT 2:

If you want to know from where all the DLL is being loaded from the process, there are two ways:

a. Look at the command

"bu kernel32!LoadLibraryExW ";as /mu ${/v:MyAlias} poi(@esp+4); .if ( $spat( \"${MyAlias}\", \"MYDLL\" ) != 0 ) { kn; } .else { g }" "

in the above URL

b. Run the process under WinDBG. Debug->Even Filter and select "Load Module" and set it to "Enabled" under "Execution". Under "Continue" set it to "Not Handled".

One of these should help you definitely.