What are lib files used for

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Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Joachim W 5, 4 4 gold badges 28 28 silver badges 45 45 bronze badges. Charles E. Grant Charles E. Grant 5, 1 1 gold badge 19 19 silver badges 20 20 bronze badges. Turns out that. I'm wondering why this is so. Code is shared and data is per default not shared between the application s consuming a Dll. Lumi: Good point. In terms of DLLs we have two types of linking. Implicit linking , when we have a. The second one is explicit linking when we use the DLL by manually loading it with LoadLibrary function.

In this type we don't need that. The security aspect was new to me. But the LIB is isolated too, isn't it? So an Attacker could simply analyze the LIB. Or is it a common scenario that the LIB is not accessible to the public?

Andy White Andy White How you create DLLs and libs depend on the compiler you use. Each compiler does it differently. Vinodhini Ramasamy Vinodhini Ramasamy 4 4 silver badges 3 3 bronze badges. One other difference lies in the performance. Girish Reddyvari Girish Reddyvari 2 2 silver badges 2 2 bronze badges. There is no performance impact between code run from a lib or from a DLL. Ask a question. Quick access. Search related threads.

Remove From My Forums. Answered by:. Archived Forums. Visual C. Sign in to vote. HI, I have never used the. Lib file before. How can I use a third party. I have be provided 1. Lib File 2 Header File 3. DLL file I already have Added the. Thursday, February 10, AM.

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