Add Windows Support for --static to guides/static_linking
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HertzDevil
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| In order to distinguish static libraries from DLL import libraries, when the compiler searches for a library `foo.lib` in a given directory, `foo-static.lib` will be attempted first while linking statically, and `foo-dynamic.lib` will be attempted first while linking dynamically. The official Windows MSVC packages are distributed with both static and DLL import libraries for all third-party dependencies, except for LLVM, which is only available as an import library. | ||
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| Static linking implies using the static version of Microsoft's Universal C Runtime (`/MT`), and dynamic linking implies the dynamic version (`/MD`); extra C libraries should be built with this in mind to avoid linker warnings about mixing CRT versions. There is currently no way to use the dynamic CRT while linking statically. | ||
| Windows fully supports static linking using the `--static` option. |
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The only targets that "fully" support static linking are the musl-libc ones, every other libc has some dynamically linked component, so this is incorrect.
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My bad, I guess I didn't understand the point of crystal-lang/crystal#14292
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Not sure if there is anything else that needs to be added for this. For #776