Re: Vim for Windows (Updated to 7.4.193)

It seems like there is too much confusion about the terms. I just want to make it clear with obvious examples because describing it with words seems to only worsen the confusion.

`gcc vim.o python33.dll -o vim` is linking `vim` against `python33.dll` at compile time, i.e. introducing automatic explicit dependency of `vim` to `python33.dll`. In this case, to start `vim` users would be forced to have `python33.dll` or get error otherwise.

`LoadLibrary("python33")` (on Windows) or `dlopen("python33", RTLD_NOW)` (on Unix) is dynamically loading `python33.dll` or `libpython33.so` by `vim`, i.e. not introducing automatic explicit dependency of `vim` to `python33.dll` or `libpython33.so`. In this case, to start `vim` users are not forced to have `python33.dll`  or `libpython33.so`, but if they have one, it will be loaded by this system call and Python would be usable from Vim.

Do you call these 2 approaches of shared library/DLL management the other way around?

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