Re: static var initialization in static library
Alex Blekhman wrote:
Actually, there is something ouside static lib .CPP file. It is
the #pragma comment(linker, "/INCLUDE...") directive that you have
to place in the .H file, which is included by some other .CPP
file.
I tried the following setup:
// static.cpp
#include <stdio.h>
struct X
{
X() { puts(__FUNCSIG__); }
} g_x;
// static.h
#pragma comment(lib, "static.lib")
// main.cpp
#include "static.h"
int main()
{
return 0;
}
No mater what I did, X::X() c'tor has never been called. Only when
I included this
#pragma comment(linker,"/INCLUDE:?g_x@@3UX@@A")
in static.h, then `g_x' instance has been created.
Alex:
Get rid of static.h and put
#pragma comment(linker,"/INCLUDE:?g_x@@3UX@@A")
in static.cpp. You will find g_X is created.
I only mentioned the header file of the plugin because my plugin was a class.
But this header file was not included by any other file except the .cpp file of
the plugin.
All I know about this is what I learned from Carl and others in the thread
<http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.vc.language/browse_thread/thread/ec1e131ad3631cb6/b5e546e6fda3ff8e>
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