Static lib on Windows?

Conrad Drescher

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Oct 21, 2022, 8:14:39 AM10/21/22

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Hi there,

we are interested in building Gecode as a static lib on Windows. But in the configure-script we found the following:

Can somebody maybe shed some light on this? Thanks!

Best regards

Conrad

Mikael Zayenz Lagerkvist

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Oct 21, 2022, 10:19:39 AM10/21/22

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Hi,

If I'm not misremembering, there is simply no-one that has worked to ensure that static linking on Windows works when building with Microsofts compiler. I think that there is nothing inherent that is problematic, it "just" needs someone that cares about getting it right.

I might be wrong though. Unfortunately, I have little experience in Windows and in particular working with Microsofts compilers

Anyone else with some experience in this area?

Cheers,

Mikael

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Jip Dekker

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Oct 23, 2022, 2:39:50 AM10/23/22

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Although it might lack some of the more advanced features compiling Gecode using CMake (instead of configure > make) does allow you to compile Gecode as static libraries on Windows. This is the method used for the MiniZinc distribution.

Cheers,

Jip

Conrad Drescher

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Oct 27, 2022, 3:49:25 AM10/27/22

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Thanks Jip and Mikael for your responses! We will give it a go and see what happens.