Re: Question about static and shared libraries and their usage in a binary on Windows in a autotools project

Bob Friesenhahn <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.libtool.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 11 Aug 2021, Vincent Torri wrote:
>
> The only solution I can see is : forcing to have only one specific
> library. either static or shared, and throw an error if the wrong lib
> is chosen at configure time.
>
> And as I prefer DLL compared to static lib, I know what to do :-)

I have the distinct impression that static libraries are rarely used 
under Windows any more.

While useful for debugging, a lot of projects just don't produce them 
any more.

Bob
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