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User forums => Using Code::Blocks => Topic started by: zaazbb on November 05, 2011, 04:00:57 am

Title: Difference between "Dynamic Link Library" to "Shared library" in project wizard?
Post by: zaazbb on November 05, 2011, 04:00:57 am

hello , everyone.
 who can tell me the Difference between "Dynamic Link Library" to "Shared library" in project wizard?

they all creat *.a and *.dll file. what's the difference between them?

 thanks.

eg: I use the latest ver. CB_20110917_rev7452. :P

Title: Re: Difference between "Dynamic Link Library" to "Shared library" in project wizard?
Post by: MortenMacFly on November 05, 2011, 09:45:24 am

Quote from: zaazbb on November 05, 2011, 04:00:57 am

what's the difference between them?

The DLL wizard is windows only and sets a few specific flags for Windows compilers like MSVC, including a Windows-DLL stub in the code. The shared library allows to create C or C++ libraries and is cross-platform as it does not involve any special (Windows) code / flags.