Et Tu Singletone.

Seems that my favorite pattern is also the bane of my current Game Engine development. Turns out that a singleton pattern doesn’t like to play nice with Dynamically Linked Libraries. The whole notion of being dynamic is counter productive to static members inside functions or classes. Looks like the only way to actually fix this is to wrap it all up in a big handler of some sort and have the calling code manage it. Either that or create a section of shared memory in the DLL and allow it to manage the singletons. Seems like a bit of a pain in the butt just to avoid a global variable. Hmm, unless I can wrap it in another creational pattern, possibly Builder or Abstract Factory…

More research is required. And research requires Tea. Therefore more Tea is required.

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