I think it is *possible* to make a static version of GnuCash, but it is impractical.
>From the GnuCash side, it would involve modifying the build engine's calls to the compilers and linkers to build and link statically instead of dynamically. The problem is that when it tries to link against, say libgtk2.a, instead of libgtk2.so, it'll fail, because it's highly unlikely that the static libgtk2.a exists on your system. Insert into that statement each library that GnuCash actually uses. You would have to build static versions of all the dependencies of GnuCash, and their dependencies, etc. There may even be some dependencies which, for other reasons, cannot be built statically, and then the whole process would fail. On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 7:56 AM Mike or Penny Novack < stepbystepf...@dialup4less.com> wrote: > On 5/12/2017 6:49 AM, John Ralls wrote: > >> On May 11, 2017, at 7:37 PM, parabolic quadrate <aotasp...@niue.nu> > wrote: > >> > >> Hi everybody > >> I need to have a pure static version of GNUCash (64bit Linux) > Why? << explain your need >> > > As John told you, gnucash uses loadable modules. > > Back in my working days, the systems I maintained had some very large > static modules (gigantic by the experience of most programmers here). > One of the things I did over those years is to make all of those > "pseudo-static" << the first time a module was needed, dynamic call but > then the address where loaded to saved, and subsequent calls static to > that address; assembler stuff. > That meant just as fast running as if static calls BUT a module could be > changed without needing to link-edit the entire program. Until all but a > reserved amount of memory left and then any additional modules called > dynamic. >> > > There should be need for those sort of tricks now. Our little computers > are faster than the big mainframes of several decades ago. > > Michael D Novack > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
