There is no particular reason for this. The divergence between msvc and non-msvc has been removed in master and static / dynamic linkage depends on MXNET_BUILD_SHARED_LIBS option.
See https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/blob/48c21988cdcde9721cb44804b775d8f0edfcb6cc/CMakeLists.txt#L797-L802 Dick Carter <[email protected]> writes: > In CMakeLists.txt, the recipe for building im2rec includes the lines: > > if(MSVC) > target_link_libraries(im2rec mxnet) > else() > target_link_libraries(im2rec ${BEGIN_WHOLE_ARCHIVE} mxnet_static > ${END_WHOLE_ARCHIVE}) > endif() > > Is there some requirement on unix or windows that forces the choice of > static-vs-dynamic linking to mxnet? Is the motivation for static linking > that in general one prefers a more portable binary (even at the expense of a > 2GB executable)? Should there be a flag to let the user select the build > approach?
