Unforgettable moments at PTC - II

And here is my last day and my last blog from the desktop of this company :). As compare to yesterday I am pretty relaxed today.
Completing few HR and finance formalities.
Will surely miss my PTC colleagues.
Lets see what new company has got for me.

Unforgettable moments at PTC - I

Its my second last day at PTC. After few hours I will leave for my flat and will come back again tomorrow which will be my last day. My heart beat has increased, I am shivering, feeling heat, thinking a lot and thats just because tomorrow is my last day.

I have enjoyed my last 3years at PTC. I started as a fresher. Its so unlike that I have done a Bsc(PCM) and end up doing a job in a Product base Company and that too in C/C++. I think it was my perseverance which landed me here.

Thanks a lot to my manager Amit Chordia. Such a cool guy. He has been a true mentor to me.

Export/Import a static variable

I faced a scenario in which I required to export/import (from/to a DLL) a structure pointer variable declared as NULL in a .cxx file.

static Notify_struct *ptr_name = NULL;

Now since it a .cxx file I can't use my Export/Import API, because in-case this file is read undet dllimport it will report compilation error as 'definition of dllimport not allowed'.
So, I moved declared this variable to a header file like this:

extern DLLEXPORTIMPORTAPI Notify_struct *ptr_name ;

This made the DLL to export this variable easily.
Few points to make. I cannot write in the header file:

EXPORTIMPORTAPI static Notification_db *notification_db;

as it reports ‘error C2201: must have external linkage’.