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Add Windows Support for --static to guides/static_linking #800

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Expand Up @@ -60,11 +60,7 @@ macOS doesn't [officially support fully static linking](https://developer.apple.

#### MSVC

Windows doesn't support fully static linking because the Win32 libraries are not available as static libraries.

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.

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


#### MinGW-w64

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