What’s the difference between .lib and .a files?

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.a is an archive of code: compiled but not linked. You would link statically with it during your program’s final link step.

.lib can be either the same as .a, or a magical so-called “import library”: a thin placeholder which causes you to require a .dll at runtime.

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