Commit f010f3e3 authored by Jay Satiro's avatar Jay Satiro
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winbuild: Document the option used to statically link the CRT 

- Document option RTLIBCFG (runtime library configuration).

Bug: https://github.com/bagder/curl/issues/254
Reported-by: Bert Huijben
parent 33058a1d

winbuild/BUILD.WINDOWS.txt

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@@ -76,3 +76,14 @@ where <options> is one or many of: 
  GEN_PDB=<yes or no>          - Generate Program Database (debug symbols for release build)

  DEBUG=<yes or no>            - Debug builds

  MACHINE=<x86 or x64>         - Target architecture (default is x86)



Static linking of Microsoft's C RunTime (CRT):

==============================================

If you are using mode=static nmake will create and link to the static build of

libcurl but *not* the static CRT. If you must you can force nmake to link in

the static CRT by passing RTLIBCFG=static. Typically you shouldn't use that

option, and nmake will default to the DLL CRT. RTLIBCFG is rarely used and

therefore rarely tested. When passing RTLIBCFG for a configuration that was

already built but not with that option, or if the option was specified

differently, you must destroy the build directory containing the configuration

so that nmake can build it from scratch.