On Thu, 12 Nov 2009, Stepan Kasal wrote:
This is the solution which currently does work, as long as the OS,
tools, and libraries are capable of it. Note that using
--disable-static is not portable so attempting to force only a shared
build decreases portability. [...]
I understand that building shared library only is something that is
not portable, because it is not possible.
Sometimes it is due to limitations in the language run-time
environment. For example, it has been a common problem that the C++
standard library provided with GCC is static under Windows due a
problem with throwing exceptions across DLL boundaries.
Bob
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GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
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