Matt,

On windows if no export/import is declared for a symbol it will be considered 
internal and not specified in the windows DLL interface. A similar things 
should be done with default visibility with gcc. So this "should" not occur. 

This particular issue should have been resolved with this patch:

https://github.com/Kitware/ITK/commit/395420846e0c9e48ede28f84a59794d889b51724

Brad

On Jun 3, 2013, at 11:30 AM, Matt McCormick <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Brad,
> 
> Duplicate exports may be an issue.  See, e.g.,
> 
>  https://issues.itk.org/jira/browse/ITK-2796
> 
> Matt
> 
> On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Bradley Lowekamp <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>> 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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