That's part of it. The linking is done at compile time. CS201 here. and I'll use the C programming language by default, as this also would apply to C++.
If you compiled a simple "hello world" program in C, the compile process also links the object created by the compilation against the libc library to create the binary. That is done by default without any arguments passed to the compiler. For example:
will simply create a binary program that prints "hello world", but will have the libraries needed to print that statically linked - embedded - in the binary.
However, if you compiled it dynamically, and added some other functions to it that requires another library to be added:
this will produce an object file called hello.o that is compiled, but not linked to any library to create the binary. To do that, you'd do:
Bash:
gcc -o hello hello.o -lexample
This will create a binary program called hello, that is dynamically linked to the example library.
In Bitwarden's case, by looking at the source, you could see if any header files for the libwebp library are included in any of the files in the source code. If they are, then they are compiled into the program and used, regardless of being dynamically or statically compiled.
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