Can not static link RmlUi 5

[xland]

I disabled the BUILD_SHARED_LIBS option.

And then Visual Studio has static lib setting.

But when I build ALL_BUILD project, I get the shared libararys.

It won't happen on RmlUi 4.4

Does this matter with GLFW+OpenGL3 backends

[mikke89]

I think you are in fact still building static libraries here. You can see from the time stamp on the RmlCore.dll that this file was built some hours earlier. So in all likelihood the dll file is just a remnant from a shared build you did earlier.

[xland]

But demo.exe dependent on RmlCore.dll.
demo project has RMLUI_STATIC_LIB preprocessor definition.

I rebuild demo project just now, and rename the RmlCore.dll.
(I think RmlCore.dll is cached by VisualStudio to avoid rebuild)

[mikke89]

I can't replicate this, everything is working fine here on my end. demo.exe runs just fine.

You already confirmed that MSVC is actually building static libraries, so the issue must be somewhere else. Perhaps the linker is linking in an earlier copy of RmlCore dynamic library from somewhere else? Do you perhaps use vcpkg, maybe that one links in another (dynamic) version of RmlUi. If so, try to disable vcpkg, or remove rmlui from it. Otherwise, check all the library paths for the demo project, and make sure that none of them have an old build of RmlUi.

[xland]

aha~~
Thanks very much.
It is caused by vcpkg.