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A comment on Beginner's Guide to Linkers (2010).

Re:Beginner's Guide to Linkers (2010) by account42 on Monday September 02, 2019 @07:00AM (#20858261)
Why does MSVC actually need import libraries? It seems MinGW is able to link against just the .DLL without problems even on Windows.
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Re:Beginner's Guide to Linkers (2010) by _old_dude_ on Monday September 02, 2019 @07:21AM (#20858377)
The DLL API is not stable in the Windows world, only the libraries are stable.
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Re:Beginner's Guide to Linkers (2010) by intea on Monday September 02, 2019 @08:45AM (#20858740)
Can you elaborate here? One of the Ls in DLL stands for library after all.
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