Is a fully static toolchain viable for C++?

[ghost]

Have a look at the Win32++ project:

https://win32-framework.sourceforge.net/

You can download it and try to compile some sample programs.

The library is header-only.

I tried to do exactly that on one of my lower-end machines (still with 8GB of RAM and a 4-core/8-thread Intel CPU), but the result was disappointing. The compilation speed was very slow.

In my subjective observation, I found that the Equation.COM distro was slower than w64devkit. However, since you switched from -Os to -O2, I’m not sure if that’s still the case.

[Peter0x44]

I'm unsure what the question is. But w64devkit is "fully static". There is no libgcc or libstdc++ dll.

[ghost]

The compilation speed of sample Win32++ programs is very slow, because you always link the C++ runtime statically.

[Peter0x44]

I'm curious. How are you coming to that conclusion?

[ghost]

By observation?