Re: Global and file-static variables in static library

... and not that to use this neat trick, you need to supply the mangled C++
name for the symbol. you can avoid that by including an extern "C" function
in the same module, and reference that function (with it's relatively
unmangled name) instead of your anonymous namespace scoped variable (which
will have a truly awful name).

Something like this:

// D1.h
#pragma comment(linker,"/include: _InitD")

class D1: public Base
{
public:
   D1();
   // declare virtual overrides
};

//--------------------------------------------------

// D1.cpp

#include "D1.h"

namespace
{
   Base* Create(){return new D1;}
   bool auto_register = RegisterPlugin("D1", Create);
}

D1::D1(){}
// virtual function definitions for D1

extern "C" __cdecl InitD()
{
}