updated README (added a note on EnTT and shared libraries - see #111)

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Michele Caini
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@@ -264,6 +264,46 @@ Use the line below to include only the entity-component system instead:
Then pass the proper `-I` argument to the compiler to add the `src` directory to
the include paths.
### Side note: shared libraries
To make sure that an application and a shared library that use both `EnTT` can
interact correctly when symbols are hidden by default, there are some tricks to
follow.<br/>
In particular and in order to avoid undefined behaviors, all the instantiation
of the `Family` class template shall be made explicit along with the system-wide
specifier to use to export them.
At the time I'm writing this document, the classes that use internally the above
mentioned class template are `Dispatcher`, `Emitter` and `Registry`. Therefore
and as an example, if you use the `Registry` class template in your shared
library and want to set symbols visibility to _hidden_ by default, the following
lines are required to allow it to function properly with a client that also uses
the `Registry` somehow:
* On GNU/Linux:
```cpp
namespace entt {
template class __attribute__((visibility("default"))) Family<struct InternalRegistryTagFamily>;
template class __attribute__((visibility("default"))) Family<struct InternalRegistryComponentFamily>;
template class __attribute__((visibility("default"))) Family<struct InternalRegistryHandlerFamily>;
}
```
* On Windows:
```cpp
namespace entt {
template class __declspec(dllexport) Family<struct InternalRegistryTagFamily>;
template class __declspec(dllexport) Family<struct InternalRegistryComponentFamily>;
template class __declspec(dllexport) Family<struct InternalRegistryHandlerFamily>;
}
```
Otherwise, the risk is that type identifiers are different between the shared
library and the application and this will prevent the whole thing from
functioning correctly for obvious reasons.
## Documentation
The documentation is based on [doxygen](http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/).