Re: [wxlua-users] Adding the equivalent to RUNTIME_LIBS to bakefiles

[Ryan P. <rpu...@gm...>]

On 1/31/07, Francesco Montorsi <f18...@ya...> wrote:
> well, it won't be difficult to add it but I wonder how much it is useful... do
> you do that to create an app with fewer dynamic dependencies?

Yes. This is always a debate, but Microsoft has ruined how easy it
used to be to distribute the run-time in VC8.0 with there manifest
tool. I hate it and I won't do it. My thought is if it is easy to
implement then give the users the choice, right?

Why would you have a static library and not make it completely
dependency free? It just doesn't seem intuitive to me. If I want
.dll's then of coarse I wouldn't mind the run-time dll, but otherwise
I just like to make things simpler.

> Also, just out of curiosity, how much the size of the final EXE increases using
> RUNTIME_LIBS==static?

I haven't got a definite answer for that. I don't think by very much.
plus the size of the exe doesn't matter too much because generally
using a large library like wxWidgets it make the executable larger
anyways. You give up size for convenience. ;-)
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Regards,
Ryan
RJP Computing