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Hi,
I am working on a WinUi desktop project in cpp with cmake. When we create Winui3 app in unpackaged mode, the debug folder looks like this
Here it generated Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.Bootstrap.dll file which gets linked dynamically, so I can't move the exe to a different location and run it. I wanted to link this lib statically. I would be of great help if you could help me solve this issue
You could try to add the .lib files path of the library in the additional dependency. You could also add reference directly.
Thank you for your response @Jeanine Zhang-MSFT , i added the lib path and lib to additional dependency, and tried launching the app from file explorer after deleting the dll, but it gave dll not found error,
it is still linking the dll, is there any way to remove this dll linking?
There is the source code at : https://github.com/microsoft/WindowsAppSDK/tree/main/dev/WindowsAppRuntime_BootstrapDLL
Thank you for the response @Castorix31 , I found the path for .lib file,
C:/Users/harshithraj.p/.nuget/packages/microsoft.windowsappsdk/1.1.1/lib/win10-x64/Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.Bootstrap.lib
Is there any way we can link this other than dll
As there is the source code, you can compile and link it it as you want
Thank you
Hello,
Welcome to Microsoft Q&A!
i added the lib path and lib to additional dependency, and tried launching the app from file explorer after deleting the dll, but it gave dll not found error
Not all .lib files are static libraries.
If you want to link a static library, first of all, you have to make sure that the *.lib you have is a real static library, not an import library of a dynamic library. According to your description, What you added is an import library not a static library
Thank you.
Jeanine
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Thank you for the clarification, then how can we link this lib statically? because our final goal is to have one exe, which will not have any dependency on any dll and can run from anywhere.
it generated Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.Bootstrap.dll file I wanted to link this lib statically.
If you want to link Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.Bootstrap.dll statically? Whether you want to statically link dynamic libraries instead of linking static libraries? If so, you couldn't delete the dll and you need copy the DLL to the directory that contains your client executable as part of the build process.
The meaning of statically link is not link a static library.
If you want to link a static library (without .dll file), you could follow the source code compile and link it.
Thank you this was helpful
@Jeanine Zhang-MSFT , i was building my project using cmake, so I myself has to link the dependent libraries, as I saw visual studio generated code was linking Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.Bootstrap.dll I linked it, is there any other libs to link?