Where to find autoitx3.lib?

[VioletGiraffe]

Hello,

I must be missing something obvious, but I can't find the said library file that I need to use AutoItX. It's surely nowhere in the folder I've installed AutoIt3 to. Please advise.

[water]

Shouldn't it be AutoItx3.dll?

[Valik]

There's a library file for static linking. It's in the AutoItX directory.

[Richard Robertson]

The lib file has been missing for a very long time. You can no longer statically link the dll.

Edit: When was the lib re-added?

Edited August 22, 2012 by Richard Robertson

[Valik]

I was unaware that it was no longer added. AutoItX is Jon's bitch.

[VioletGiraffe]

So I should link everything dynamically? That sucks, but I can do, thanks!

However, it's weird that header file doesn't seem to have typedefs for AutoitX functions.

[FaridAgl]

If you had any difficulty, take a look:

[VioletGiraffe]

Thanks! That's how I thought it's done (although I never actually had to do it before).

[JohnOne]

I imagine if you download an old version, you will find the file in it, and if I were to do that, I'd only use the same version dll.

[Jon]

If it's not there it's a build script error :/

[JohnOne]

Definitely not there, I was a while ago.

[twitchyliquid64]

Whilst we are on the topic AutoItX, can I ask if it is still being maintained? Do the functions in the DLL still have behaviour congruent to that of AutoIt itself?

Any Chance of adding more of AutoIt's builtins to it? Maybe expose an interface to the interpreter itself?

Edited August 24, 2012 by twitchyliquid64

[trancexx]

No? No. No? No.

...respectively.

[Richard Robertson]

I'd say trance is right. AutoItX hasn't been touched in a long time.

[Jon]

There's not much to touch aside from function level bug fixes. Most of the new code that goes into AutoIt is language improvements which don't apply. Personally, I've always thought AutoItX was the most interesting part of AutoIt. Especially for corporates which sometimes mandate that any scripts should be supportable and written in VBScript/PowerShell. I actually wanted to redo it from scratch as well so that it works as a Powershell applet or something.