===== Static Library =====
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A **Static Library** or **Statically-Linked Library** is a set of routines, external functions and variables which are resolved in a caller at compile-time and copied into a target [[dido:public:ra:xapend:xapend.a_glossary:a:application|application]] by a [[dido:public:ra:xapend:xapend.a_glossary:c:compiler|compiler]], linker, or binder, producing an [[dido:public:ra:xapend:xapend.a_glossary:o:object|object]] file and a stand-alone executable. This executable and the process of compiling it are both known as a static build of the program. Historically, libraries could only be static.

They are usually faster than the shared libraries because a set of commonly used object files is put into a single library [[dido:public:ra:xapend:xapend.a_glossary:e:exec|executable file]]. One can build multiple executables without the need to recompile the file. Because it is a single file to be built, use of link commands are simpler than shared library link commands, because you specify the name of the static library.

See: [[dido:public:ra:xapend:xapend.a_glossary:s:shared_libraries]]

Source: [[https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/difference-between-static-and-shared-libraries/ ]]


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