ins no dot, the extension
<tt>.so</tt> is appended. Also, the <tt>lib</tt> prefix is prepended
if necessary. So <tt>ffi.load("z")</tt> looks for <tt>"libz.so"</tt>
in the default shared library search path.
</p>
<p>
On Windows systems, if the name contains no dot, the extension
<tt>.dll</tt> is appended. So <tt>ffi.load("ws2_32")</tt> looks for
<tt>"ws2_32.dll"</tt> in the default DLL search path.
</p>

<h2 id="create">Creating cdata Objects</h2>
<p>
The following API functions create cdata objects (<tt>typ