On Wed, 20 Dec 2017 18:56:12, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
What need do you specifically have for static libraries?
its not a need - its a preference - i prefer static builds - the count of programs i regularly build is small, so the redundancy doesnt hurt my use case. also if I am to share my builds with others it makes for a smoother process - as you can end up with a single exe. notice carefully that many projects offer static and shared builds, here is one example: http://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com if you choose to keep doing only shared builds it wont kill me, but it is an annoyance because its that many more libraries i need to build, when I could just download and link an already built static library - also notice carefully that these type packages have some inconsistency - whereas the ones i listed previously do not have static library - these here do: 1. mingw64-x86_64-curl - usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/lib/libcurl.a 2. mingw64-x86_64-libgnurx - usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/lib/libgnurx.a - usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/lib/libregex.a 3. mingw64-x86_64-openssl - usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/lib/libcrypto.a - usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/lib/libssl.a 4. mingw64-x86_64-win-iconv - usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/lib/libiconv.a 5. mingw64-x86_64-zlib - usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/lib/libz.a -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
