Jan 23, · A static library (also known as an archive) consists of routines that are compiled and linked directly into your program When you compile a program that uses a static library, all the functionality of the static library that your program uses becomes part of your executable On Windows, static libraries typically have a lib extension, whereasDec 09, 19 · add/sub Stubs that contains "jmp" instructions to the import table pointers If a client does not use __declspec(dllimport) the relative offset of the opcode will be resolved to these functions One of the main advantages of not using __declspec(dllimport) is we can replace the dynamic library to a static library without changing our code!I would like to use the same code to build both a DLL and a static library So far so good, but it seems that static data members are the only class members that need to be explicitly dllimport'ed when the library is used in DLL form Combined with the fact that a class cannot be d...