How static link dll msvcr120.dll?

[Mike Parker]

On Thursday, 1 June 2023 at 15:05:40 UTC, Marcone wrote:
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> I linked msvcr120.lib, but the executable still ask for 
> msvcr120.dll not found.

msvcr120.lib is a "link library", not a static library. On other 
systems, you pass shared libraries directly to the linker and it 
will pull the information it needs from there to set up the 
exectuable with what it needs for the system loader to load the 
shared library at runtime. Windows works differently. The 
compiler puts all that information in a link library when it 
creates the DLL, and you pass that to the linker instead of the 
DLL.

Windows system libraries are not distributed as static libraries 
as far as I know.