title: Static member variable in template, with multiple dlls
body: <p>My code is built to multiple .dll files, and I have a template class that has a static member variable.</p>
  
  <p>I want the same instance of this static member variable to be available in all dlls, but it doesn't work: I see different instance (different value) in each of them.</p>
  
  <p>When I don't use templates, there is no problem: initialize the static member in one of the source files, and use __declspec(dllexport) and __declspec(dllimport) directives on the class. But it doesn't work with templates. Is there any way to make it work?</p>
  
  <p>I saw some proposed solutions that use "extern", but I think I can't use it because my code is supposed to work with visual studio 2002 and 2005.</p>
  
  <p>Thank you.</p>
  
  <p>Clarification: I want to have a different instance of static variable per each different type of template instantiation. But if I instantiate the template with the same type in 2 different dlls, I want to have the same variable in the both of them.</p>