MingW linker-options / C::B

[artganseforth]

Hello everyone,

i'm looking for a solution for the following problem for two days now. Even posting in C::B and wx-forum did not help...

Enviornment:
Win10 (64bit) notebook, Code::Blocks 17.12, MingW32, wxWidgets 3.1.2, several openGL-libraries.

I want to migrate my openGL-wxWidgets-project from devC++ to Code::Blocks. For testing i have a second project using the same libraries, but wihout real function and only onde source-file.
Both projects are - as far as i can see - compiled and linked with the same settings, but one (the test-project) compiles to a single static exe-file, while the other one compiles to a dll-based dynamic exe - and i have absolute no idea why.

Any idea, what the reason might be?

Thank you,
Frank

[coder777]

Whether it uses dll or not depends on the libraries used. If they reference the dll you will need the dll.
When your test project does not need a dll it means most likely that it does not use any function from the library.

So in order to link statically you need to use the right (non dll) libraries.

[artganseforth]

Thank you. I thought, i had the right (several .a-files). But it wasn't the case obviously. In between (with some help from C::B-forum) it works.

Thank you anyway,
Frank