Object.factory from shared libraries

[Cliff via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Friday, 26 September 2014 at 15:45:11 UTC, Jacob Carlborg
wrote:
> On 2014-09-26 16:24, krzaq wrote:
>
>> That would be satisfactory to me, except for the linux-only 
>> part.
>>
>> In that case, I think I'll simply try to call filename() as 
>> the factory
>> function in each library - that should work everywhere, right?
>
> Dynamic libraries only work properly on Linux. This has nothing 
> to do with Object.factory.

What is the nature of D's so/dll support?  Or is there a page
describing it?