On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 17:31:26 +0200, Markus Demetz
<marcolino@webeffects.it> wrote in comp.lang.c++:
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> 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).
>
> The clients main function:
> int main() {
> Station *st = Station::loadFromDb(1, true);
> ...
> }
> leads to a linker error.
>
> Is it possible to export static functions and how?[/color]
You need to ask in a Windows programming group like
news:comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32, or one of Microsoft support
groups on the server msnews.microsoft.com. DLLs are not defined by
the C++ language, they are a Windows operating system specific
extension.
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