Linking multiple libraries

[Mike Parker]

On Saturday, 25 November 2017 at 22:43:30 UTC, A Guy With a 
Question wrote:

> Actually ignore that last comment, they are producing libs not 
> dlls. Funny how all three ways of linking work...

On Windows, when building a DLL, compilers typically produce an 
"import library" alongside it, which has a .lib extension like 
static libraries. The executable links with the import library, 
but needs to have the DLL on the system path at runtime.