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#pragma once
#include <iostream>
#include <typeinfo>
#include <string>

/* Cmake will define MyLibrary_EXPORTS on Windows when it
configures to build a shared library. If you are going to use
another build system on windows or create the visual studio
projects by hand you need to define MyLibrary_EXPORTS when
building a DLL on windows.
*/
// We are using the Visual Studio Compiler and building Shared libraries

#if defined (_WIN32) 
  #if defined(ecto_cpp_EXPORTS)
    #define  ECTO_EXPORT __declspec(dllexport)
  #else
    #define  ECTO_EXPORT __declspec(dllimport)
  #endif /* MyLibrary_EXPORTS */
#else /* defined (_WIN32) */
 #define ECTO_EXPORT
#endif

namespace ecto
{
  ECTO_EXPORT const std::string& name_of(const std::type_info &ti);

  ECTO_EXPORT const std::string& name_of(const std::string& name);

  ECTO_EXPORT std::string symbolic_name_of(const std::string& name);

  template<typename T>
  const std::string& name_of()
  {
    static const std::string& name_cache =  name_of(typeid(T));
    return name_cache;
  }

  template<typename T>
  const std::string& symbolic_name_of()
  {
    static const std::string name_cache = symbolic_name_of(name_of<T>());
    return name_cache;
  }
}