Matt,

What would be the issue with that?

Brad

On Jun 3, 2013, at 10:44 AM, Matt McCormick <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Brad,
> 
> I think many of the third party libraries that the ImageIO modules
> depend on are not set up for shared libraries on Windows.
> 
> Thanks,
> Matt
> 
> On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 2:26 PM, Bradley Lowekamp <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> What are the possible problem what we will encounter if we convert ITK's 
>> ImageIO modules to be shared libraries on Windows? And manage the gcc 
>> exported symbols why we are at it?
>> 
>> Performing the factory registration of ImageIO factory objects during static 
>> initialization in static libraries is fill with problems and tricky 
>> behaviors and is problematic for large applications to manage. By making 
>> these libraries shared the ImageIO factory objects should be unique and 
>> consistent across different libraries which use ITK, so that they will not 
>> get registered multiple times. Additionally, by explicitly specifying the 
>> exported symbols on gcc this should help to reduce the library size.
>> 
>> Thanks for you thoughts,
>> Brad
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