Re: Share .cpp and .h along projects

From:

Ulrich Eckhardt <eckhardt@satorlaser.com>

Newsgroups:

microsoft.public.vc.language

Date:

Tue, 14 Aug 2007 09:13:44 +0200

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Ben Voigt [C++ MVP] wrote:

"Ulrich Eckhardt" <eckhardt@satorlaser.com> wrote in message
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Ben Voigt [C++ MVP] wrote:

Blech. Please don't suggest exporting classes from Windows dynamic
libraries.

Works for me and many others. Requires care. What exactly is your point?

It is incredibly fragile,

C++ is a sharp tool, right.

non-standard behavior,

Yes, the C++ standard doesn't even describe thread. Would you advocate not
using them for that reason?

that produces postings in this newsgroup continually.

Right, bad practice, documentation and tools are the reason why again and
again people have problems with this.

The same behavior can be gotten in a robust, compiler-independent way
using COM-compatible binary interfaces. So why use __declspec(dllexport)?

I haven't actually used COM sufficiently to make any statements about it.

BTW: C++ is not only about classes, it seems this has been assumed in this
thread somehow.

Uli