On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 15:15 +0200, riboaz@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > hi, > > this question was posed during the last week and i was very curious as to > the answer, but nothing came across this particular mailing list, so i'm a > gonna ask again: > > how does one link a gtk+ application (v2.6.2) as a static executable? > > the command > pkg-config --libs > always returns > -Wl,--export-dynamic > > presumably this dynamic link specifier disables static linking (adding > -static in the makefile doesn't help). > > when modifying my makefile by hand and providing the pkg-config libraries > explicitly, (but *without* the -dynamic specifier and *with* the -static > specifier), the linker complains that the gtk library cannot be found. > > what i conclude is that the installation of gtk+ does not, by default, > create and/or install static libraries. > > is, thus, a requirement of gtk+ that all applications must run on a > machine where gtk+ is installed, or is there another way to compile and > install gtk+ so that static libraries are also included, allowing > statically linked gtk+ apps? static linking against gtk+ is not generally useful. You would have to compile in all the required modules as well, which are normally dlopened at runtime: theme engines, input methods, pixbuf loaders. Matthias _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
