# Windows third party libraries are static and not dll

**URL:** https://discourse.vtk.org/t/windows-third-party-libraries-are-static-and-not-dll/10008
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [November 29, 2022, 5:15pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/windows-third-party-libraries-are-static-and-not-dll/10008 "2022-11-29T17:15:55Z")
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### Author: ![Gilthalas](https://discourse.vtk.org/user_avatar/discourse.vtk.org/gilthalas/32/362_2.png) [@Gilthalas](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/Gilthalas)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2022, 5:15pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/windows-third-party-libraries-are-static-and-not-dll/10008/1 "2022-11-29T17:15:55Z")

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With 9.2 (it seems, since in 9.1 this did not happen), the third party libraries VTK uses are built as .lib files (static libraries) instead of .dlls. I have BUILD\_SHARED\_LIBS set to true. I need them to build as DLLs so I can properly load them in Java. Any thoughts what is going on here?

NEVER MIND - I somehow totally missed the DLLs in another directory. Sorry