On 25.07.10 00:57:14, John Drescher wrote: > > mingw can link using a .dll > > > > I do not have much mingw experience but I have around 15 of windows > and Visual Studio experience. With Visual Studio you absolutely do not > link your application with .dlls. You use import libs with a .lib > extension the same way you do with a static lib. This import lib is > not a static lib however its much smaller. During the application load > process .dlls linked using import libraries are automatically loaded. > This is not the only way to use .dlls you can use them also without > linking but there is much more work in that.
Same goes for mingw, but it has a way of extracting the import library from a .dll, see http://www.stats.uwo.ca/faculty/murdoch/software/compilingDLLs/existingDLL.html Andreas -- You are fairminded, just and loving. _______________________________________________ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake
