April, 2007
We have decided to move to CMT v1r18p20061003. This newer version is available via the GLAST installer and all developers are encouraged to upgrade.
Note: MRvcmt v0r24p2 is the recommended version to use in conjunction with this version of CMT. You should use MRvcmt v0r22p2 at least.
Shared Library Support
The big push to get us to move to this new stable release of CMT was the need to support shared libraries on Windows. Jim Chiang was continuing to have trouble with shared libraries in SciTools. Initially, we intended to deploy Tracy's fix to CMT v1r16p20040701 - but Joanne found that v1r18p20061003 included the fix as well. We then set forth to test this new version on Linux, Windows and Mac and there were no ill effects. Then came time to demonstrate that shared libraries could really export their symbols! We worked with CalibData and Jim and Tracy checked out SciTools: