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Bug 4414 - Consider including MSVC static library on the website
Summary: Consider including MSVC static library on the website
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: SDL
Classification: Unclassified
Component: website (show other bugs)
Version: HG 2.0
Hardware: All All
: P2 normal
Assignee: Sam Lantinga
QA Contact: Sam Lantinga
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Reported: 2018-12-05 19:37 UTC by Bogomancer
Modified: 2018-12-06 19:19 UTC (History)
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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.