Static Linking of OBJ and LIB Files

tB allows you to use properly compiled .lib and .obj files as statically linked libraries, using declares similar to DLLs, only referring a lib/obj file in your Miscellaneous files folder of your project. Once the file is in the project, it's set up with this syntax outside of declares.

Example

Example from the sqlite sample:

#If Win64 Then
    Import Library "/Miscellaneous/sqlite3_64.obj" As SQLITE3 Link "stdlib", "kernel32"
#Else
    Import Library "/Miscellaneous/sqlite3_32.obj" As SQLITE3 Link "stdlib", "kernel32"
#End If

Generic Syntax

Import Libary "Relative resource path" As NAMESPACE Link "dependency1", "dependency2", '...

Using Imported Libraries

After that, you can use NAMESPACE in place of a DLL name, inside class/module declares:

' Compiled sqlite-amalgamation-3440200 (v3.44.2)
'   using cmdline (MSVC):  cl /c /Gw /Gy /GS- /DSQLITE_OMIT_SEH sqlite3.c
#If Win64 Then
    Import Library "/Miscellaneous/sqlite3_64.obj" As SQLITE3 Link "stdlib", "kernel32"
#Else
    Import Library "/Miscellaneous/sqlite3_32.obj" As SQLITE3 Link "stdlib", "kernel32"
#End If

Module MainModule

    Declare PtrSafe Function sqlite3_open CDecl Lib SQLITE3 (ByVal filename As String, ByRef ppDb As LongPtr) As Long
    Declare PtrSafe Function sqlite3_exec CDecl Lib SQLITE3 (ByVal pDb As LongPtr, ByVal sql As String, ByVal exec_callback As LongPtr, ByVal udp As LongPtr, ByRef errmsg As LongPtr) As Long
'...

INFO

StdCall names will be mangled with argument sizes, e.g. int myfunc(int x, short y); would be myfunc@6. It therefore may be better to use CDecl.