"Weaver, John P CIV" <john.p.weaver@xxxxxxxx> writes: > The gcc compiler prefers to use dynamic libraries in the linking > phase. When porting software from one machine to another it is > frequently desirable to link to static libraries as much as possible > to account for different versions of the libraries. The -static flag > is useful when you do not need any dynamic library support but causes > the linker to fail if there is only a dynamic library for a particular > call. Is there a way to ask the linker to use static libraries when > possible and report the dynamic libraries that are needed to complete > the linking process? I am not aware of any such option. If you are using the GNU linker, you can tell it to prefer dynamic libraries using -Bdynamic and tell it to use only static libraries using -Bstatic, but I don't know of any option to tell it to prefer static libraries but use dynamic libraries if they are available. Ian
