# Generating \*.lib and \*.dll files in windows

**URL:** <https://discourse.glfw.org/t/generating-lib-and-dll-files-in-windows/113>\
**Category:** support\
**Created:** [December 24, 2014, 1:14pm UTC](https://discourse.glfw.org/t/generating-lib-and-dll-files-in-windows/113 "2014-12-24T13:14:49Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 24, 2014, 1:14pm UTC](https://discourse.glfw.org/t/generating-lib-and-dll-files-in-windows/113/1 "2014-12-24T13:14:49Z")

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**[kl1str0n](https://sourceforge.net/u/kl1str0n/)** wrote on [Wednesday, December 24, 2014](https://sourceforge.net/p/glfw/discussion/247562/thread/6bca8a04/#880c):

I would like to generate my own dll and lib files.

When I download the “source package” distribution from the following link:  
[http://www.glfw.org/download.html](http://www.glfw.org/download.html)  
and then use cmake to build it for Visual Studio I get a bunch of example code but no libs or dll’s

Does anyone know if there are there instructions for creating these?