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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