[Insight-developers] Shared library question

[Tom Vercauteren]

Hi Bill,

I just saw your recent activity on an old shared lib bug:
http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=6724

First of all, thanks for taking care of this!

This reminded me of a somewhat related question that bugged me some
time ago. Why is it that on windows (at least with visual studio) when
we enable shared libs in ITK, we end up with only one dll (cf.
http://www.itk.org/pipermail/insight-users/2008-June/026139.html )
whereas we have several on linux?

Is this related to the ITK_EXPORT macro? My basic understanding is
that visual c++ requires one specific export/import macro per dll but
ITK only uses ITKCommon_EXPORT, cf.
http://www.itk.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/Code/Common/itkWin32Header.h?root=Insight&sortby=date&view=markup

Regards,
Tom