Mixing Static and Dynamic-linked Libraries

The ObjectWindows libraries are built using the BIDS (container class) libraries, which in turn are built using the C run-time library.

If you link with the DLL version of the ObjectWindows libraries, you must link with the DLL version of the BIDS and run-time libraries. You do this by defining the _OWLDLL macro. This is not the only combination of static and dynamic-linked libraries you can use: Each line in the table below lists the allowable combinations of static and dynamic-linked libraries.

Allowable library combinations

STATIC	DLL
OWL, BIDS, RTL	(none)
OWL, BIDS	RTL
OWL	BIDS, RTL
(none)	OWL, BIDS, RTL

See Also

• Implicit and Explicit Loading