wxDynamicCast: what option?

[Carsten A. Arnholm]

Igor Korot wrote:
> Vadim,
> What option shopuld I choose in order to make sure I'm linking
> dynamically? And, most importantly, how do I check it?

The way I understand DLLs and MSVC is that you either link another DLL 
statically by linking  against the import library of the DLL. Alternatively 
you don't link against the import library but use LoadLibrary(...) and 
GetProcAddress(...)  (from Windows API) to get function pointers. I think wx 
has portable equivalents for those, but I don't think it is possible or 
makes any sense to use the wx DLLs that way, because they export C++ classes 
not just functions. Your application needs to include the wxWidgets header 
files and must therefore link against the equivalent import libraries.

The dependency walker Vadim mentions is very good for finding dependencies 
on Windows. Recently, I stumbled over a similar tool that can show 
dependencies on Linux
http://domseichter.blogspot.com/2008/02/visualize-dependencies-of-binaries-and.html

Is there a tutorial somewhere explaining how to make your own wxWidgets 
appplication  .dll/.so projects (for example using Code::Blocks IDE)? I know 
how things work with exporting generic C++ classes from dlls on windows, but 
I have not yet figured out how to partition my wxWidget application into 
.dll/.so's in a way that would also work on Linux.

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