After building wxWidgets with VS2012, which files can I delete in the lib folder?

Question

I've built wxWidgets with VisualStudio Express 2012 (nmake) and I don't know which files I can delete in the lib folder. The following file types are in the lib folder: .exp .manifest .ilk .pdb .lib .dll

I know I need the .lib and .dll, but what are the rest for? In another build, I also have these file types: .obj .tlog .log

What of these types are files that I can safely delete?

Answer 1

Maybe it helps to know what the files are for

• exp: definition which function to export by the linker 1
• obj: output of the compilation, which normaly gets used by the linker to generate the binary 2
• ilk: used by vc to speed up the generation (on multiple times) 3
• pdb: contains info for use by the debugger and linker 4
• tlog: used by vc to speedup compilation time 5