Building static libraries on Windows

[Chris Hecker]

I build krb5 libs statically from source on windows, although I'm still 
on an old version, but you can email me for my vcproj files and edits if 
you want.

Chris


------ Original Message ------
From: "Greg Hudson" <ghudson at mit.edu>
To: "Sandeep Patil" <sandpa at gmail.com>; krbdev at mit.edu
Sent: 2019-09-18 10:37:28
Subject: Re: Building static libraries on Windows

>On 9/18/19 12:53 PM, Sandeep Patil wrote:
>>  I want to link statically to the MIT Kerberos API on Windows. I am able to
>>  build dlls using the instructions but cannot seem to find a way to specify
>>  building of static libraries to the nmake build process (like you can do
>>  with configure on Linux/Mac OS). Is there any way to do that ?
>
>As far as I know, the Windows build creates and installs .lib files
>(gssapi32.lib, krb5_32.lib, etc.) as well as DLLs.
>
>The regular build system does not actually support static libraries in a
>useful way.  I added partial static build support to facilitate code
>coverage analysis for the test suite, but gcov has evolved to support
>dynamic libraries, so at some point I will probably remove support for
>--enable-static --disable-shared.
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