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Compiler Option: -static

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Prefer static libraries over dynamic ones when linking

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-static

Description

When creating an executable or a shared library/DLL, the -static compiler option can be used to tell the compiler to prefer linking against static libraries rather than shared libraries/DLLs. That way, if the linker finds both static and shared versions of a library, it will use the static version, rather than defaulting to the shared version.

Installing the proper static libraries and then using -static can be used to avoid some or all dependencies on shared libraries.

Platform Differences

On Linux & co it is possible to create purely statically linked executables, because static versions of the system libraries used by FreeBASIC are available.
On Windows, there are no static versions of the system libraries, but -static can still be useful to decide between static library or DLL versions of other libraries, if both are installed.