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Bug 4414

Summary: Consider including MSVC static library on the website
Product: SDL Reporter: Bogomancer <bogomancer>
Component: websiteAssignee: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Severity: normal    
Priority: P2    
Version: HG 2.0   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   

Description Bogomancer 2018-12-05 19:37:19 UTC 
The MSVC development libraries on the download page of libsdl.org currently only include the shared library for SDL (SDL2.dll and an SDL2.lib import library). For future releases it would be nice if the static library was included as well (I noticed that CMake builds it by default as SDL2-static.lib). For the record, the MinGW tarball includes both.
Comment 1 Sam Lantinga 2018-12-06 19:19:08 UTC 
The DLL is independent of which version of Visual Studio you're using, but a static library is often tied to a specific Visual Studio version. Since there are many versions out there that people might use, we let them compile it themselves if that's important to them.