Using static libraries?

[Neo]

I've been wondering about this, and I'd like to ask whether it's possible to use statically linked libraries in your FB programs.
In other words, compile the libraries you use into your EXE, so that the user doesn't need to download all DLLs he or she is missing. The EXE files get a little bit bigger from this (because they also include the DLLs) but it stops people whom I send programs from asking "could you send me BLABLA.DLL , and DUMDUM.DLL ?" I think it's quite irritating.

The reason I ask this is because VC++ can do the same by setting some compiler parameters, and I wondered if FB had such parameters too.

Anyone knows?

[DrV]

Sure, if you've got the static libs available - MSVC can't do it unless you've got the right libs either. Some libs used with FB are already static libs (mostly the ones that are named just libsomething.a rather than libsomething.dll.a). You can't magically turn a DLL into a static lib, though.