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# GLFW binaries for 64-bit Windows
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This archive contains documentation, headers, pre-compiled static libraries,
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import libraries and DLLs for GLFW 3.4.
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Binaries for the following compilers are included
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- Visual C++ 2022 (built with 17.9.0)
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- Visual C++ 2019 (built with 16.11.34)
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- Visual C++ 2017 (built with 15.9.60)
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- Visual C++ 2015 (built with 14.0.25431.01)
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- Visual C++ 2013 (built with 12.0.40629.00)
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- MinGW-w64 (built with 13.2.0-win32-dwarf-msvcrt)
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## Binaries for Visual C++
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All binaries for Visual C++ 2017 and earlier are compatible with Windows XP, but
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this is not supported by Visual C++ 2019. This support has been deprecated by
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Microsoft and GLFW will also drop support for Windows XP in a future release.
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### GLFW as a DLL
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To use GLFW as a DLL, link against the `glfw3dll.lib` file for your
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environment. This will add a load time dependency on `glfw3.dll`. The
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remaining files in the same directory are not needed.
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This DLL is built in release mode for the Multithreaded DLL runtime library.
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There is also a GLFW DLL and import library pair in the `lib-static-ucrt`
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directory. These are built with Visual C++ 2019 and the static Multithreaded
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runtime library.
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### GLFW as a static library
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To use GLFW as a static library, link against `glfw3.lib` if your application
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is using the Multithreaded DLL runtime library, or `glfw3_mt.lib` if it is
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using the static Multithreaded runtime library. The remaining files in the same
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directory are not needed.
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The static libraries are built in release mode and do not contain debug
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information but can still be linked with the debug versions of the runtime
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library.
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## Binaries for MinGW-w64
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### GLFW as a DLL
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To use GLFW as a DLL, link against the `libglfw3dll.a` file for your
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environment. This will add a load time dependency on `glfw3.dll`. The
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remaining files in the same directory are not needed.
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The DLLs are built in release mode.
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The DLLs depend on the `msvcrt.dll` C runtime library. There is also a GLFW
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DLL and import library in the `lib-static-ucrt` directory that is built with
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Visual C++ 2019 and statically linked against the UCRT.
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All DLLs in this archive provide the same ABI and can be used as drop-in
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replacements for one another, as long as the C runtime library they depend on is
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available.
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### GLFW as a static library
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To use GLFW as a static library, link against the `libglfw3.a` file for your
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environment. The other files in the same directory are not needed.
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The library is built in release mode and do not contain debug information.
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