How to deploy single exe application (?)

[russhy]

On Monday, 15 November 2021 at 21:16:14 UTC, Willem wrote:
> Using D -- I have created a simple command line utility that 
> download some info via a https API and save it in a sqlite3 
> database file. To use the exe on another windows machine, I 
> need to copy over the relevant sqlite3 and curl DLL files.
>
> Question:  Is there a way to create a single .exe with the 
> relevant windows DLL info in there? Can this be done with 
> static linking?
>
> Any feedback / pointers on where to start would be greatly 
> appreciated.
>
> Many Thanks, Willem

you can statically link libraries just like in other languages

if you use dub it's as easy as this:

```json
"sourceFiles-windows": [
     "../_clibs/glfw3.lib",
]
```

if you use plain dmd, then it's simple

```
dmd main.d mylib.lib
```