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statically linking specific .DLL ?

Started by yoni0505 Dec 14, 2010 at 2:55 PM 0 replies 1.7k views

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Dec 14, 2010 at 2:55 PM

Is it possible to statically link a specific .DLL file?
I'm using SDL and I have to include the SDL.dll file so I have to pick "multi-threaded DLL".

I don't want to include the msvcr100.dll with my program, I already saw a SDL program which got the SDL.dll and (Multi-threaded DLL) but doesn't depend on msvcr100.dll .

I guess there is some way to statically link specific .dll, yet google didn't reveal me the answer...

I tried to link msvcrt.lib but it didn't work... :(

So is it possible? [wink]

jpetrie

Dec 14, 2010 at 3:36 PM

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Is it possible to statically link a specific .DLL file?

No. But you can statically link to the import library, if one was provided, or manually LoadLibrary() the DLL and GetProcAddress() to get the exports.

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I don't want to include the msvcr100.dll with my program,

You have to, it implements the C runtime which your program requires. There are ways to link to a static version of the runtime, but they have security implications. Using the DLL is the preferred approach.

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I already saw a SDL program which got the SDL.dll and (Multi-threaded DLL) but doesn't depend on msvcr100.dll .

It does (or maybe it depends on an earlier version). Without the C runtime, you can't use most of the language features you probably expect to exist.

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