Re: [Quantlib-dev] Compiling ql as DLL

[Luigi B. <lui...@gm...>]

On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 16:04 -0400, Irakli Machabeli wrote:
> Is there any particular reason that auto_link.hpp contains this line ?
> 
> #define QL_LIB_NAME "QuantLib-" QL_LIB_TOOLSET QL_LIB_THREAD_OPT
> QL_LIB_RT_OPT "-" QL_LIB_VERSION ".lib" 
> #pragma comment(lib, QL_LIB_NAME)
> 
> This means that all programs have to link to static version (at least
> having lib extension) of library
> Besides project files for VS8 contain hardcoded name and even though
> configuration name says CRTDLL it is configured to make static lib

Hi Irakli,
	"CRTDLL" means that programs will link to the DLL version of the C++
runtime. As for QuantLib itself, it generates a static library in all
configurations (we were never able to create it as a DLL under
Windows...)

Luigi


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