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LIB Reference

The Microsoft Library Manager (LIB.exe) creates and manages a library of Common Object File Format (COFF) object files. LIB can also be used to create export files and import libraries to reference exported definitions.

Note
You can start this tool only from the Visual Studio command prompt. You cannot start it from a system command prompt or from Windows Explorer.

Overview of LIB
How to: Set LIB.EXE Options in the Visual Studio Development Environment
Running LIB
Managing a Library
Extracting a Library Member
Working with Import Libraries and Export Files

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Thomas Lee

Using LIB from cmd.exe or batch files

At least as of the 2010 version of the Windows DDK, LIB no longer exists as its own executable. Instead, it has been merged with LINK; it is now accessed as "LINK /LIB" but is, in all other respects, unchanged as far as I can tell.