static function in dll

Hi,

I'm quite new to C++.

I'm developing under Microsoft Visual Studio, andI've written some
classes and want them to be exported to a .dll. I use a macro DLL_EXPORT
and everything goes well.

But when I try to export a static function, the client, which imports
the function gives a linking error.

class Station {
...

/* database */
DLL_EXPORT void write2db(bool recursive);
DLL_EXPORT virtual void removeFromDb();
static DLL_EXPORT Station* loadFromDb(int id, bool recursive);

...

};

DLL_EXPORT is changed accordingly to __declspec(dllexport) and
__declspec(dllimport).

So my question is:
1. is it possible to export static functions and how?

Thank you for any help,
Markus

Markus Demetz wrote:[color=blue]
> Hi,
>
> I'm quite new to C++.
>
> I'm developing under Microsoft Visual Studio, andI've written some
> classes and want them to be exported to a .dll. I use a macro DLL_EXPORT
> and everything goes well.
>
> But when I try to export a static function, the client, which imports
> the function gives a linking error.
>
> class Station {
> ...
>
> /* database */
> DLL_EXPORT void write2db(bool recursive);
> DLL_EXPORT virtual void removeFromDb();
> static DLL_EXPORT Station* loadFromDb(int id, bool recursive);
>
> ...
>
> };
>
> DLL_EXPORT is changed accordingly to __declspec(dllexport) and
> __declspec(dllimport).
>
> So my question is:
> 1. is it possible to export static functions and how?
>
> Thank you for any help,
> Markus
>[/color]

Hi, Markus,

Maybe you got this into the wrong group?

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> Hi, Markus,[color=blue]
>
> Maybe you got this into the wrong group?
>[/color]
Sorry, it was the group below.

Markus