[LAD] Forgive me, for I have sinned, or: toss your Macintosh, as fast and wide as you can.

[Markus Seeber]

On 12/10/2017 12:14 PM, Filipe Coelho wrote:
> On 10.12.2017 11:51, Markus Seeber wrote:
>> On 12/09/2017 02:32 PM, nils wrote:
>>> Bottom line: It turned out the Windows way of shipping all or most
>>> libs with the program is a really good way to compatibility.
>> Just employ static linking when sensible.
>>
>> ...
>>
>> The current way of bundling shared libraries with the application ist just a dirty workaround
>> for Problems that combines the worst parts of static and dynamic linking,
>> introduces bloat and solves problems that are mostly caused by employing dynamic
>> linking in the first place.
>
> This is not related to Linux, but since someone already mentioned Windows.. I have bad news for you.
> See https://forum.juce.com/t/important-breaking-change-juce-will-now-use-dynamic-linking-for-the-windows-runtime-by-default/25276
>
> Basically, with the latest updates, you can only load a maximum of 64 statically built plugins in a Windows DAW.
>

But this only concerns the windows runtime library, right? Everything else can still be linked statically.