Re: Passing pointer between DLL boundary question
Hi David,
There is not arguing that DLL's can cause you a lot of grief. I statically
link as many things as I can so long as the code is not going to be shared
by concurrently running programs. I don't statically link to MFC though.
That one is pretty small and typically already installed by someone else
before my programs ever get to the system. I do have one stand alone
program where I statically linked MFC and it ended up being around 280K so I
think it is moot. That much space is hardly worth running a DLL for unless
it is already there and being used.
Tom
"David Wilkinson" <no-reply@effisols.com> wrote in message
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Sure it makes sense if your plug-in does not have an MFC interface. Though
actually, I was talking about CRT, not MFC.
Static linking makes sense for two big reasons:
1. Total package size
2. Ease of deployment
If you use DLL's, you have to make some sacrifices in your architecture.
But if you are careful you can have a plug-in design that is not only free
of the requirement that all components use the same CRT, but is also
compiler-independent. It's like COM without the baggage.
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