In the OS/2 and Windows platforms, stub for a dynamic link library to resolve references at run time. An import library file has the file extension .lib.

A .LIB file that contains information about one or more dynamic-link libraries (DLLs), but does not contain the DLL's executable code. The linker uses an import library when building an executable module of a process, to provide the information needed to resolve the external references to DLL functions.

a file with a