Re: [Mingw-users] static / dynamic linking (was: question on ObjectiveC)

[Helge H. <hel...@sk...>]

Franco Bez wrote:
> Am Die, 30 Jan 2001 schrieb Christian Edward Gruber:
> >Sorry, typo.  I meant the question to be shlib.  Same question but with
> >libobjc.so/libobjc.dll

Only want to add that it is very important to use only a *single*
libobjc (either always link against the import library or against the
static one).
This is also different to Unix .so - symbols end up in private
name/storage-spaces with DLLs, so if you don't watch out, you can end up
with multiple ObjC environments (class registries etc) in a single
process.

> PS: static libraries are NOT linked at all. Static libraries are ONLY an
> archive of object files. (Just like a zip file, but uncompressed)
> So, a static library does not USE any other library, but it might require that
> you link to other libraries as well, when You intend to link to that static
> library.

I thought so, which is why I wondered about Christian's question as well
:-)

Helge
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