Questions about using workspaces

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So I'm just getting into using workspaces and wanted to make sure I understood a few things. As an example, let's say I'm making a single networking project that will have a client binary, server binary, and a library for a shared resource between the two.

Project
    ->client
    ->server
    ->lib

If I build this project for Windows, will the lib be output as it's own file? Like a DLL or something? Or would I be able to take the single server binary and run it without any other files and have it work as a portable binary?

A more specific question here. I've used the winresource crate in the past to give my windows binaries more information and a program icon. How do I do that in the context of a workspace? Do I just have each binary in the project (client and server) implement the winresource crate individually? Or does that somehow get moved up to the workspace level?

Now that I think about it...it's probably the former. But I'll leave the question in for confirmation from the community.

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The default for Rust is static linking, you'd have to explicitly configure the library crate to get a DLL out of it.

Yes, you will need to pack resources for each binary individually.

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