static linking in dll's

Tim Reed timr@viaworks.com
Mon Oct 16 10:08:00 GMT 2000


If that is the case, what is the purpose of libcrtdll.a and dllcrt1.o in
the lib directory of the mingw package? I would think that you'd be able
to link to these libraries statically.

On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Earnie Boyd wrote:

> --- Tim Reed <timr@viaworks.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Is there a way that I can use dllwrap to make a dll that statically links
> > the contents of crtdll.dll?
> > 
> 
> Not unless you have the source code for crtdll.dll which you could then build
> as a static library which most likely would require man months/years of work
> just to do.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
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