Re: static members in shared libraries

[Spaceman]

Thanks very much for your help, it works a treat.
p.s. You guessed me correctly as a Win32 bod !!!

Paul Pluzhnikov wrote:
> "Spaceman" <staceyj71@yahoo.co.uk> writes:
>
> > If I compile this to generate the shared library and executable using
> > the -fPIC option I get the following output:
> >
> > My Value= 10;
> > My Value= 99;
> > My Value= 99;
>
> That's correct output ...
>
> > However, The output I would expect is:
> > My Value= 10;
> > My Value= 99;
> > My Value= 10;
>
> Your expectations are incorrect (probably influenced by your
> experience with Win32 DLL model, which is very different from all
> other UNIXes (except AIX)).
>
> > Can anyone please help with this?
>
> You need to specify platform (I'll assume Linux/x86_64).
>
> You can get behaviour similar to Win32 by linking the shared library
> with -Bsymbolic linker flag (prefix it with -Wl, when using 'gcc'
> or 'g++'), or by localizing CommonElement::m_static with a linker
> version script (info ld -> Scripts -> VERSION).
>
> Cheers,
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