除了其他人提到的所有要点，我在特定的用例中使用静态库:

不允许我的终端用户访问一些通用库 我在我的代码中开发的。

换句话说，假设我的产品中有两个库，A和B。A使用B服务并依赖于它。但是B是一个通用库，包括许多可以单独使用的有用服务。为了避免我的终端用户直接从B中受益(他们应该为B的许可证付费!)，我通常将B编译为一个静态库，并将其直接放在a中。因此，B服务对a来说是完全私有的，最终用户不能使用。

您应该仔细考虑随时间的变化、版本控制、稳定性、兼容性等。

如果有两个应用程序使用共享代码，您是否希望强制这些应用程序一起更改，以防它们需要相互兼容?然后使用dll。所有的exe都将使用相同的代码。

或者你想把它们彼此隔离，这样你就可以改变一个，并确信你没有破坏另一个。然后使用静态库。

DLL地狱是当你可能应该使用一个静态库，但你使用了一个DLL代替，并不是所有的前任都与它兼容。

关于这个主题的精彩讨论，请阅读Sun的这篇文章。

它包含了所有的好处，包括能够插入插入库。关于插入的更多细节可以在这篇文章中找到。

如果你在嵌入式项目或专门的平台上工作，静态库是唯一的方法，而且很多时候它们编译到你的应用程序中不是那么麻烦。同时，拥有包含一切的项目和makefile会让生活更快乐。

静态库被编译到客户机中。在编译时使用.lib，库的内容成为消费可执行文件的一部分。

动态库在运行时加载，而不是编译到客户端可执行文件中。动态库更加灵活，因为多个客户端可执行文件可以加载一个DLL并利用它的功能。这也将客户端代码的总体大小和可维护性保持在最小。

其他人已经充分解释了静态库是什么，但我想指出一些使用静态库的注意事项，至少在Windows上:

Singletons: If something needs to be global/static and unique, be very careful about putting it in a static library. If multiple DLLs are linked against that static library they will each get their own copy of the singleton. However, if your application is a single EXE with no custom DLLs, this may not be a problem. Unreferenced code removal: When you link against a static library, only the parts of the static library that are referenced by your DLL/EXE will get linked into your DLL/EXE. For example, if mylib.lib contains a.obj and b.obj and your DLL/EXE only references functions or variables from a.obj, the entirety of b.obj will get discarded by the linker. If b.obj contains global/static objects, their constructors and destructors will not get executed. If those constructors/destructors have side effects, you may be disappointed by their absence. Likewise, if the static library contains special entrypoints you may need to take care that they are actually included. An example of this in embedded programming (okay, not Windows) would be an interrupt handler that is marked as being at a specific address. You also need to mark the interrupt handler as an entrypoint to make sure it doesn't get discarded. Another consequence of this is that a static library may contain object files that are completely unusable due to unresolved references, but it won't cause a linker error until you reference a function or variable from those object files. This may happen long after the library is written. Debug symbols: You may want a separate PDB for each static library, or you may want the debug symbols to be placed in the object files so that they get rolled into the PDB for the DLL/EXE. The Visual C++ documentation explains the necessary options. RTTI: You may end up with multiple type_info objects for the same class if you link a single static library into multiple DLLs. If your program assumes that type_info is "singleton" data and uses &typeid() or type_info::before(), you may get undesirable and surprising results.