From a88a4ad9924595f3c32722de43420cb7eb4843ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: dfighter1985 <devnull@localhost>
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 03:29:34 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] FIXED: GUI not showing up because of the interface user
 functions not getting registered, because of a file linking issue.

---
 code/nel/src/gui/interface_expr.cpp | 15 +++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/code/nel/src/gui/interface_expr.cpp b/code/nel/src/gui/interface_expr.cpp
index 90714e8d5..cbf3cace3 100644
--- a/code/nel/src/gui/interface_expr.cpp
+++ b/code/nel/src/gui/interface_expr.cpp
@@ -28,6 +28,21 @@ using namespace NLMISC;
 namespace NLGUI
 {
 
+	void ifexprufct_forcelink();
+
+	// Needed because otherwise GCC and co. omit the code in interface_expr_user_fct.cpp code
+	// causing the GUI not to work.
+	// It all happens because no function is called *directly* from that module.
+	struct LinkTrickster
+	{
+		LinkTrickster()
+		{
+			ifexprufct_forcelink();
+		}
+	};
+
+	LinkTrickster linkTrickster;
+
 	// Yoyo: Act like a singleton, else registerUserFct may crash.
 	CInterfaceExpr::TUserFctMap *CInterfaceExpr::_UserFct= NULL;