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Posted: **Mon Sep 21, 2020 7:57 pm**

Why are .libs so much smaller than .dlls? At least in Windows.

For instance, Windows 10 1904, winhttp.lib is 17,924 bytes long. But winhttp.dll is 585,728 bytes long.

Posted: **Mon Sep 21, 2020 10:09 pm**

My dumb analogy would be dll = exe, lib = source code.

Posted: **Tue Sep 22, 2020 3:28 am**

Dll's may have the CRT and other dependencies linked into it so it can work across Visual studio versions, static libs often don't

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