Meanwhile in Windows land, "static linking" is very much a thing, but it means you dynamically link only to the basic Windows API libraries (Kernel32, User32, G

Meanwhile in Windows land, "static linking" is very much a thing, but it means you dynamically link only to the basic Windows API libraries (Kernel32, User32, Gdi32, Ole32, Advapi32, etc...). You can't have a windows program that doesn't have some way to import API functions. System call numbers are shuffled with every version change of Windows.