Re: Can initialization of static class members be forced before main?

In windows, if the Global list and the self registering classes are in
different
libraries (and if they are DLLs as James stated) the code something
like;

AggregateEntity.cpp
-----------------------
int AggregateEntityobjinit=0;
namespace
{
    DTSBaseEntity* createAggregateEntity(){
    return new AggregateEntity;
    }
const bool registered =
ObjFactory::Instance().Register("AggregateEntity",createAggregateEntity);
}

  will fail to work since every DLL has its own copy of ObjFactory.So
you have to
pass the singleton from DLL to the main module

DLLEXPORT ObjFactory * initFactory()
{
  AggregateEntityobjinit = 0 //This will force the registration. (I
think it's
                             //connected to the last sentence in
3.6.2./1
  return ObjFactory::Instance();
}

 This way you can get all classes registered .Note that this is only
required if registration takes place in a DLL you won;t need it if it
happens to be in a static library or executable itself

Hope it helps
Hurcan Solter