Comments by Skippums (Top 4 by date)

I spoke too soon when saying that your solution fixed the glitch. The packing between the two builds is now the same (both are 8), but I am still seeing two different sizes for both std::map and std::vector between my DLL and client. Since our project is due this Friday, I am going to modify my approach to export a bunch of static functions that wrap the class's member functions (since I am using the exported object as a singleton anyway). So, for example, my class has function:

class myClass {
bool IsFunction(const size_t) const;
};

So in the DLL interface file I will have:

myClass *foo;
__declspec(dllexport) IsFunction(const size_t val) {
return foo->IsFunction(val);
}

Perhaps this is the accepted way to do accomplish singleton access anyway, so I don't have to worry about issues like inconsistent objects between builds. However, it adds another level of indirection between the client and DLL, it's more work maintaining the interface (since functions are not magically exported as I create them in myClass), and the client has to load more pointers to objects (instead of loading the single I have to load each function I want to use individually). I am still curios as to why this behavior is occurring. If you have any ideas, I'm more than happy to hear them :).