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  Static Libraries
Posted by David Wilson on Feb-07-2013 00:55
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Thanks for your quick and helpful responses in the past.

I don't suppose ChartDirector provides fully-functional static libraries which can be linked into our product, so that we do not have to provide a ChartDirector DLL with our product?

  Re: Static Libraries
Posted by Peter Kwan on Feb-07-2013 02:40
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Hi David,

Unluckily, we do not have static libraries for ChartDirector.

For C++, static libraries are compiler dependent and compilation flags dependent. For example, static libraries compiled using VS 2005 C++ may not be compatible with binaries compiled using VS 2012 C++. (The binaries may not be able to linked together, or they may link but when crash when executed.) The same applies to different gcc versions. Even if exactly the same compiler is used, if the compilation flags are different (such as Debug compile vs Release compile), the binaries may not be compatible.

Because ChartDirector supports so many compiler brands and versions and operating systems, so it becomes difficult to manage for us if we provide static libraries.

Regards
Peter Kwan