Neil Heller wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

NH> or MSVC 

RJ> ???

NH> My note to you is chock full of mistrakes; this is one of them. 
NH> That  should have been MFC.  But in fact, if you're running Linux,
NH> it doesn't  apply at all.

NH> being statically vs. dynamically linked.

RJ> That's a term I've run into since I've been running linux,  so I 
RJ> have at least some idea of what it means,  though not too much of 
RJ> how you'd program (or link?) for it.

NH> Does Linux use DLLs?  I'm not aware of a dynamic linking
NH> methodology with anything else.

As far as I know it does use dynamic loading,  where stuff that a program
needs is loaded on the fly from various libraries.  As far as I know that's
"dynamic linking" rather than "static linking",  which
puts all of the stuff into the executable,  making it bigger.

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