Ok, thanks a lot for your explanations. That helped me to clarify my own
understanding! :-)
Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
Hi Vlad,
* Vlad Skvortsov wrote on Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 11:59:46PM CET:
Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
* Vlad Skvortsov wrote on Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 11:46:46PM CET:
Ok, I believe I have to explain more here. My product is deemed to be
self-contained: no dependencies on external shared libraries, nothing. I
build all my [C] applications static. However, recently a need has
arised to write a Perl script and include it into the distribution. This
script needs some functionality from my core libraries. So I have to
build a shared module that my Perl script will load and use. I guarantee
that noone else will link against this shared module; if someone will,
it's not my problems, since I didn't intend to.
My application uses third-party library that is [deemed by its author to
be] built as shared. However, I want all my applications to link
statically against it and I want my shared module to include its
contents (so that the end user doesn't have to install this third-party
shared library).
Yes. The answer is: I don't think this is possible.
*snipped my misunderstanding*
Well, yes, I understand that it's not possible if all we have is just a
shared library binary. But my case is when I have _sources_ of the
libtool-controlled library, not in my tree though. So, I have both .a
and .so/.dylib for that. The one thing that is missing here is the
ability to make autotools use the right file.
D'oh. Sorry, I think you explained that well enough but I just didn't
understand it in the right way.
Well, there's a current libtool limitation in that it can't link some
libs statically and some shared. 1.5.22 will fix the `-static' in the
way that only uninstalled libtool libraries will be linked statically
(so if you use no other ones, using that will help you). You can always
use `-all-static' to get a static executable. Per-library switches are
still on our TODO list, sorry.
Cheers,
Ralf
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