JTK wrote:
>David Nickel wrote:
>
>>Guten Tag!!
>> In the builds newsgroup and I see also on the checkins page, they
>>talk about static builds. Does anybody know what this is and what it does?
>>Thank you for your help!
>>David Nickel
>>
>
>"Static build" refers to a build in which some of the DLLs (or shared
>objects if you're on one of those 'alternative' OSs) are built as static
>libraries and are statically linked into the program. What this does is
>effectively make the library an intergral part of the program, instead
>of a separate "loadable module" which the OS has to load at runtime and
>then 'link' into the main program, thus saving a bit of work at runtime.
>
>I don't believe there are separate "static builds" available, nor will
>there be, I think the plan is to just make some of the DLLs into static
>libraries wherever it makes sense
>*COUGH*somethingIsuggestedmonthsago*COUGH* in the main trunk.
>
Thanks very much!
