static build of iup (success) on windows and broken links about niup HOT 2 CLOSED

Thank you!
I'll update docs

Personally I don't see much appeal into static build of GUI app. E.g. on Linux IUP will depend on on GTK and having GTK statically compiled as well is bigger problem IMHO.

If you distribute application with required DLLs, User can replace them in case of need for fix.

Anyways, thank you for this, I'll include it in docs

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Thanks !
Your point of view is totally valid.
On windows, some people (me) remember the traumatism of missing dll which are a nightmare to find from a trustable source. Some people from python (me...) find it not straightforward to pack and redistribute... So, sometimes, for a small app, I thought that a single file executable might do the trick.

I don't know linux really well, but I suppose you can link again IUP without GTK.
I have heard of flatpak, snaps, docker and go default static built, which are all again the all philosophy of dynamic linking, but may sometimes lead to dependency troubles.

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