[Openal] I want to build OpenAl to have a static libray

[Chris Robinson]

On Thursday 15 May 2008 11:35:32 pm you wrote:
> Is there a solution for a lib (OpenAl32.lib) which did not need DLL
> (OpenAL32.dll) to work?

There isn't, unfortunately. The DLL is seperate from the app so the user can 
use a specific version for their system (the dsound wrapper, a hardware 
driver, an alternative implementation, etc). Static linking would prevent the 
user's driver from being used. The redistributable installer, however, only 
needs to be run once and won't overwrite newer/other DLLs, which is why it's 
the prefered method for distributing an OpenAL app.