Global initialization is not thread-safe (especially in DLLs) in Silver

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@ck

Well you could put the dllentry/dllexit as static methods inside a class; that will ensure they don’t hit for globals. But agreed this should be documented.

@ck

fx files are our metadata files. They don’t do anything on Windows but they will let you reference that dll directly from another Elements project (only contains the exported classes/functions though). you can’t do that with exe and winexe of course.

I guessed as much, but there’s a documentation page saying they’re needed only for Cocoa targets so I thought I’d ask.

@ck

Checked it; the lack of pdb is because of GeneratePDB. That’s currently not exposed in the gui but if you open the project file in a text editor, under the Release profile, add or set <GeneratePDB>True</GeneratePDB>

I just tried it and it doesn’t work. The Release configuration (to which I added the <GeneratePDB>) fails with:

C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\RemObjects Software\Elements\RemObjects.Elements.Island.Windows.targets(84,5): error : C:\Program Files (x86)\RemObjects Software\Elements\Bin\lld.exe: error: could not open '/pdb:SilverDLL1.dll': no such file or directory