How to configure Static Linking in Visual Studio?

[ClobberXD]

I am interested in trying out static linking, and I'm using Visual Studio 2015. How do I enable this from the Project Properties?

 

Thanks!

[Enderman]

is this so that you can use the exe program on different PCs?

 

in the "build" tab click configuration manager and change at the top left corner "debug" to "release"

[Unimportant]

For the standard runtime libraries provided by microsoft with MSVC:

 

Right click on your application (not solution) in the solution explorer and select properties.

 

Configuration properties -> C/C++ -> Code generation -> Runtime library:

Select eighter 'Multi-threaded' or 'Multi-threaded debug' depending on what you want in stead of 'Multi-threaded DLL' or 'Multi-threaded debug DLL'

 

For specific libraries you include yourself, consult the documentation of the library as you will probably have to do a static build of the library itself first.

[ClobberXD]

8 hours ago, Unimportant said:

For the standard runtime libraries provided by microsoft with MSVC:

 

Right click on your application (not solution) in the solution explorer and select properties.

 

Configuration properties -> C/C++ -> Code generation -> Runtime library:

Select eighter 'Multi-threaded' or 'Multi-threaded debug' depending on what you want in stead of 'Multi-threaded DLL' or 'Multi-threaded debug DLL'

 

For specific libraries you include yourself, consult the documentation of the library as you will probably have to do a static build of the library itself first.

Can you tell me how 'Multi-threaded' and 'Multi-threaded debug' options differ? Thanks!

[ClobberXD]

9 hours ago, Enderman said:

is this so that you can use the exe program on different PCs?

 

in the "build" tab click configuration manager and change at the top left corner "debug" to "release"

Yes, and also it's a breeze to just distribute one executable... (I myself don't know what DLLs I should distribute along with the .exe, any idea?)

[Unimportant]

13 hours ago, Anand_Geforce said:

Can you tell me how 'Multi-threaded' and 'Multi-threaded debug' options differ? Thanks!

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa278396(v=vs.60).aspx

 

Options with 'debug' add debugging symbols and hooks to the compiled program so that you can use advanced debugging functions. Options without 'debug' are for release builds when you are done debugging, and the program is ready to be shipped.

 

Obviously, compiling with 'debug', will result in a slower, much larger executable, which is the tradeoff for the advanced debugging functionality.

 

Options with 'DLL' require external run time libraries DLL's, options without 'DLL' have the runtime library statically linked and can run on their own. This does not include any 3rd party libraries you use yourself, only the microsoft ones.