Why doesn't a C++ static library project have linker settings?

Question

Revealing my ignorance: Why doesn\'t a static library project (in Visual Studio in my case) have linker settings in the project properties page? I thought \"linking\" was kind

Answer 1

Linking is a process of combining object files into executables (and dynamic libraries, which have similar to executables format).

Static libraries aren't linked, they are simple archives of object files.

When you reference static library in your project, object files are extracted from library and linked together with files of particular project.