static library on Windows platform issue

Question

Hello everyone,

Two questions about static library on Windows platform,

1. How to check whether a lib is a static library (or not, e.g. import library for a DLL or some other format which is not a legal static library file even if file name has .lib extension);
2. How to check whether MT or MD flag is used when build a static library?

thanks in advance, George

Answer 1

Your question 2 is easy. the dumpbin tool in VC can simply do this:

dumpbin /directives your_static_lib.lib

And then check the dependency library names by MSVC runtime library list