Andrew Stitcher

@owent What you are suggesting with static libraries doesn't help because as @lalitb already said the issue is the header file only design for the API.

@lalitb I looked at #1105 and indeed the issue and solution are the same - is there any movement on adding these files to a library? Would the approach there...

@marcalff - Thanks for very neatly summarizing all of this and explaining the history - I think I'm in the camp that really considers the singletons to really be part...

I didn't get time this week to rough out any actual code, but I did enough messing/research to have come to different conclusion to others here: * At least for...

For it appears we have a C++ language issue which maybe means that the Windows solution doesn't "work": Defining the static member out of line in a header file is...

Also worth noting that "weak" symbol references are really not what we are trying to achieve here so I don't know why people keep on using that terminology. We are...

@meastp I think that supporting Windows requires a DLL so it will come later . It is possible to make the library inclusion 'automatic' by using a ```#pragma``` but I'm...

@matlo607 Sorry this change looks good, but it makes the regular CI build fail because now it can't find the same binaries! So Look at the Travis output above and...

@matlo607 I think this may be fixed with change b172262577a79d8764b9fe06e27f71663446c309. If you have a chance can you check and close this PR if it is fixed.

> Sure, thanks for the feedback! Should I open an issue (at this point)? I think this deserves an issue - although there may already be an issue about reconnect...