Do static libraries, which depend on other slibs need the actual 'code' from them to work?

Yes, you have got it pretty much right. Executables (and DLLs) which depend on static libraries cannot be created without those dependencies being resolved, but static libraries that contain dependencies on other static libraries do not require those dependencies to be resolved at static library creation time . In fact, the process of creating a static library does not involve the linker at all.

Can't really add the Neils answer except to say that a static library is really just a whole bunch of object (.o) files collected into a single indexed file. So what works for a . O file will work for a static library.

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