So, I have found a little more information: I have a Shared Library. In that library is defined a number of static classes and const variables (they are global variables). We need them to be static and/or const so they get loaded only once and everyone can reference them. If I create an exe and reference any of those static classes or const (defined in the Shared Library) everything is fine. However, If I create a shared library that then calls any of the static classes or consts (defined in the other shared library) then none of the statics or consts are initialized. I am linking the other library at Link time with the -lsoname parameter. Do you know why they are not getting initialized? If I call dlopen instead will that help solve this problem? Is there something I can set to get those initialized before I use them? I am using g++ version 4.0.2 on Suse 10. I also get the same results compiling with g++ (GCC) 4.1.0 (SUSE Linux). Thanks!!!! >>> John Love-Jensen <eljay@xxxxxxxxx> 12/08/06 5:44 AM >>> Hi Chad, > Any idea why it is 0 when using wcslen? And any idea why I'm not even getting > an error to notify me of the problem? Works on my platform with my version of GCC with the BSD Standard C Library (ISO/IEC 9899:1999 compliant). I'm guessing its either your Standard C Library or your version of GCC or your platform. What version of Standard C Library are you using? Who is the provider of your Standard C Library (e.g., GLibC)? What version of GCC are you using? What platform are you using? Also, your code snippet and explanation of the behavior is nice, but could you provide a short complete code example that demonstrates the problem. Maybe its something simple like you used the incorrect header files (e.g., <wchar.h> instead of <cwchar>). And could you provide the GCC command line that you used to compile your short complete code example. Thanks, --Eljay
