Thanks Budman. I know the very basics, but the below is something I wondered about (just because I know that in some cases the .a being linked into the executable is all that's needed, and so assumed that was always the case):
Static Linking is done by creating an import lib from the DLL and linking to that. ie libXXX.a for mingw. The "XXX.dll" is still loaded at runtime but the linker resolving the references via libXXX.a
... so knowing this as well is very helpful, thanks.
Static Linking is done by creating an import lib from the DLL and linking to that. ie libXXX.a for mingw. The "XXX.dll" is still loaded at runtime but the linker resolving the references via libXXX.a
... so knowing this as well is very helpful, thanks.