Re: Question about static and shared libraries and their usage in a binary on Windows in a autotools project
Vincent Torri <[email protected]>
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On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 3:44 PM Alexei Podtelezhnikov <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > >> 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. > > Perhaps I am off base here. Isn’t this why DLL comes paired with a LIB wrapper, while static is just LIB. VC links with LIB regardless. Visual Studio uses indeed .lib by default for the import library (what you call the lib wrapper) and for the static library. libtool, meson and cmake (not sure for cmake) are using .dll.a for the import lib Note that having an import lib is not necessary, it's perfectly possible to link against the DLL. The GNU linker allows this. See https://sourceware.org/binutils/docs/ld/WIN32.html, section "direct linking to a DLL" for more information. Vincent Torri