[Issue 20690] Static LibCurl

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https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20690

kinke <kinke at gmx.net> changed:

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--- Comment #5 from kinke <kinke at gmx.net> ---
(In reply to Richard Cattermole from comment #1)
> The dynamic loading facilities such as dlsym and GetProcAddress can be used
> to look for symbols in the host executable image.
> 
> As per: https://github.com/dlang/phobos/blob/d5dc0115/std/net/curl.d#L4206
> 
> It is configured to do this by default, allowing for static linking into the
> executable.

In that case, the custom static curl library will almost certainly need to be
built with a special config, using `__declspec(dllexport)` for the
implementations, so that the executable will export the symbols for
GetProcAddress() usage.

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