Its not all the windows libraries, but often the OS creates just one interface library to wrap the syscalls. Those do not tend to be big libraries where you sho

Its not all the windows libraries, but often the OS creates just one interface library to wrap the syscalls. Those do not tend to be big libraries where you should worry about being statically linked to your program. The problem with Linux also have to do with license, giving GPL can get some program into trouble by statically linking GPL code. There are 3 cases for me that can force one to use shared libraries: Licensing, Dynamic loading a DSO at runtime (like in Apache modules) and when you are developing a big project, but once you need to ship the production code, get it back to statically linking everything. Other from that i don't see why you would want this.