Static Class Variables in Dynamic Library and Main Program [duplicate]

Answer 1

I believe that STL classes are always dynamically created so you can't actually call them static. They exist on the heap. If the member is passed to a function then a copy is put into static memory. You have to make your own destructor that deletes the stl explicitly once.

Answer 2

This question has been resolved in another question I posted. Basically there were indeed two copies of the static variable -- one in the main program and one in the shared library, but the runtime linker was resolving both copies to the main programs copy. See this question for more information:

Main Program and Shared Library initializes same static variable in __static_initialization_and_destruction_0