Hello there everybody! After reading the web and one straight day/night of trying out stuff, I cannot figure out why static linking doesn't work. According to the DirectFB-project this seem to be possible (http://www.directfb.org/documentation/GTK_Embedded/). I got those libs: atk-1.6.0 fontconfig-2.2.2 freetype-2.1.8 glib-2.4.0 gtk+-2.4.1 jpeg-6b libpng-1.2.5 pango-1.4.0 tiff-v3.6.1 zlib-1.2.1 All (if possible) where compiled with --enable-static. After "make install" I really have all those *.a files in <prefix>/lib Now trying to compile test-static.c (see bottom of eMail) with the command... gcc `pkg-config --cflags gtk+-2.0` -L/home/mirco/test-system/lib -lgtk-x11-2.0 test-static.c -o test-static ... works as expected. The resulting binary test-static compiles and runs. If I try the same with static linking like... gcc `pkg-config --cflags gtk+-2.0` -static -L/home/mirco/test-system/lib -Wl,-Bstatic -lgtk-x11-2.0 test-static.c -o test-static ... I get these errors: /tmp/ccuoq9YZ.o(.text+0xe): In function `delete_event': : undefined reference to `g_print' /tmp/ccuoq9YZ.o(.text+0x20): In function `destroy': : undefined reference to `gtk_main_quit' /tmp/ccuoq9YZ.o(.text+0x50): In function `main': : undefined reference to `gtk_init' /tmp/ccuoq9YZ.o(.text+0x5c): In function `main': : undefined reference to `gtk_window_new' /tmp/ccuoq9YZ.o(.text+0x72): In function `main': : undefined reference to `g_type_check_instance_cast' /tmp/ccuoq9YZ.o(.text+0xa2): In function `main': : undefined reference to `g_signal_connect_data' /tmp/ccuoq9YZ.o(.text+0xb5): In function `main': : undefined reference to `g_type_check_instance_cast' /tmp/ccuoq9YZ.o(.text+0xe5): In function `main': : undefined reference to `g_signal_connect_data' /tmp/ccuoq9YZ.o(.text+0xf0): In function `main': : undefined reference to `gtk_widget_show' /tmp/ccuoq9YZ.o(.text+0xf5): In function `main': : undefined reference to `gtk_main' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status BTW, I'm using gcc 3.4.0. Any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance for your time and kind advice! Best regards... Mirco test-static.c: #include <gtk/gtk.h> static gboolean delete_event(GtkWidget* widget, GdkEvent* event, gpointer data) { g_print ("delete event occurred\n"); return FALSE; } static void destroy (GtkWidget *widget, gpointer data) { gtk_main_quit (); } int main (int argc, char** argv) { GtkWidget* window; gtk_init (&argc, &argv); window = gtk_window_new (GTK_WINDOW_TOPLEVEL); g_signal_connect (G_OBJECT (window), "delete_event", G_CALLBACK (delete_event), NULL); g_signal_connect (G_OBJECT (window), "destroy", G_CALLBACK (destroy), NULL); gtk_widget_show (window); gtk_main (); return 0; } _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list