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RE: Linking with comctl32 lib
- From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g dot r dot vansickle at worldnet dot att dot net>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 23:43:35 -0500
- Subject: RE: Linking with comctl32 lib
> From: Bryan Siever
> Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 11:32 PM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Linking with comctl32 lib
>
> Greetings,
> This question came up after a lively discussion with several
> other developers. Let me clarify my question.
> You build a standalong windows app and link in
> (statically) the comctl32.dll into your app.
By definition that is impossible. The "D" in DLL stands for "Dynamic".
> You then want to
> deploy your application, your application now contains parts
> of the dll but not all of them due to static linking.
No, it doesn't. The .lib you linked to is a stub. It doesn't contain any
part of the DLL code, regardless of how much of the library you use. IIUC,
the .lib under discussion isn't even of Microsoft origin; it's generated by
a Cygwin or Mingw program.
--
Gary R. Van Sickle
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