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

On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 3:27 PM Bob Friesenhahn
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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.

mupdf was an example of a lib that produced a static lib on Windows
and Unix, but in the latest version, they finally added the build of a
shared lib

Vincent Torri