On Monday, 29 October 2018 at 00:04:54 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
Both are listed as extern, where is the actual variable stored? If it is in the dll, it shouldn't be extern there.
It's defined in the .cpp file. This is how the built-in DLL template generates it - "extern" in the .h file, actual definition in the .cpp file.
If you don't have "extern" there, anybody who #includes that .h file would inadvertently have the variable defined, which would result in duplicates (and won't compile).
