Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >>> Did you succeed with static linking? > > Angus> Nope. Haven't tried. > > Angus> Do I need to re-compile (witness the QT_DIR, > Angus> __declspec(dllimport) discussion) or can I just redo the > Angus> linking step? If the latter, what flags should I pass to the > Angus> compiler to link against libqt.a rather than qt3.dll? > > Do Michael's explanation there help? > http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-devel AT lists.lyx.org/msg76978.html
In a moment of clear thinking, I tried to force the linker to load the qt libraries statically. $ time i386-mingw32-g++ -g -O -W -Wall -mms-bitfields -Wl,-enable-stdcall-fixup -Wl,-enable-auto-import -Wl,-enable-runtime-pseudo-reloc -Wl,-s -Wl,--export-all-symbols -o lyx.exe BufferView.o BufferView_pimpl.o <more object files> trans.o trans_mgr.o undo.o undo_funcs.o vc-backend.o version.o vspace.o mathed/.libs/libmathed.a insets/.libs/libinsets.a frontends/.libs/libfrontends.a -L/home/angus/mingw-xcompile/qt3//lib -Bstatic -lqtmain -lqt -Bdynamic graphics/.libs/libgraphics.a support/.libs/libsupport.a ../boost/libs/regex/src/.libs/libboostregex.a ./boost/libs/signals/src/.libs/libboostsignals.a ../intl/libintl.a -lm real 14m2.239s user 11m51.847s sys 0m8.961s Ie, I changed the original "-lqt3" to "-Bstatic -lqtmain -lqt -Bdynamic". However, this doesn't look very promising (identical size of the nominally statically linked and dynamic executables): $ cp lyx.exe /mnt/windowsJ/Programs/LyX/bin/lyx-static.exe $ ls -l /mnt/windowsJ/Programs/LyX/bin total 40944 -rwxr-xr-x 1 angus angus 11475968 Apr 22 08:51 lyx.exe -rwxr-xr-x 1 angus angus 11475968 Apr 22 14:17 lyx-static.exe -rwxr-xr-x 1 angus angus 3945 Apr 22 08:51 noweb2lyx -rwxr-xr-x 1 angus angus 6437888 Apr 22 11:23 qt3.dll -rwxr-xr-x 1 angus angus 6437888 Apr 22 10:48 qt3-native.dll -rwxr-xr-x 1 angus angus 6077440 Apr 22 11:19 qt3-xcompile.dll -rwxr-xr-x 1 angus angus 2660 Apr 22 08:51 reLyX -rwxr-xr-x 1 angus angus 11475968 Apr 22 08:51 lyx.exe -rwxr-xr-x 1 angus angus 11475968 Apr 22 14:17 lyx-static.exe Sure enough, reboot under Windows and $ cd J:/Programs/LyX/bin $ mkdir static $ mv lyx-static.exe static $ cd static $ ./lyx-static results in the dreaded dialog: lyx-static.exe - Unable to Locate Component This application has failed to start because qt3.dll was not found. Reinstalling the application may fix the problem. Grrrrrrrr. Try two. Same thing but replace the original "-lqt3" with "/home/angus/mingw-xcompile/qt3/lib/libqtmain.a /home/angus/mingw-xcompile/qt3/lib/libqt.a" $ time i386-mingw32-g++ -g -O -W -Wall -mms-bitfields -o lyx.exe BufferView.o BufferView_pimpl.o Bullet.o Chktex.o CutAndPaste.o DepTable.o FloatList.o Floating.o FuncStatus.o InsetList.o LColor.o LaTeX.o LaTeXFeatures.o LyXAction.o MenuBackend.o paragraph_funcs.o ParagraphList.o ParagraphParameters.oSpacing.o TextCache.o Thesaurus.o ToolbarDefaults.o boost.o boost-inst.o box.o buffer.o bufferlist.o bufferparams.o bufferview_funcs.o chset.o converter.o counters.o debug.o encoding.o exporter.o gettext.o factory.o funcrequest.o importer.o intl.o iterators.o kbmap.o kbsequence.o language.o lastfiles.o lengthcommon.o lyx_cb.o lyx_main.o lyx_sty.o lyxcursor.o lyxfont.o lyxfind.o lyxfunc.o lyxgluelength.o lyxlayout.o lyxlength.o lyxlex.o lyxlex_pimpl.o lyxrc.o lyxrow.o lyxserver.o lyxtextclass.o lyxtextclasslist.o lyxvc.o main.o paragraph.o paragraph_pimpl.o ispell.o pspell.o sgml.o tabular.o tabular-old.o tabular_funcs.o tex-accent.o tex-strings.o texrow.o text.o text2.o text3.o toc.o trans.o trans_mgr.o undo.oundo_funcs.o vc-backend.o version.o vspace.o mathed/.libs/libmathed.a insets/.libs/libinsets.a frontends/.libs/libfrontends.a /home/angus/mingw-xcompile/qt3/lib/libqtmain.a /home/angus/mingw-xcompile/qt3/lib/libqt.a graphics/.libs/libgraphics.a support/.libs/libsupport.a ../boost/libs/regex/src/.libs/libboostregex.a ../boost/libs/signals/src/.libs/libboostsignals.a ../intl/libintl.a -lm real 10m1.570s user 6m23.170s sys 0m7.731s Hmmm. Interesting. Quicker to link. Of course, I also removed the "-Wl,s" option from the command line, so comparison of sizes is meaningless unless I strip the executable myself. $ cp lyx.exe lyx1.exe $ i386-mingw32-strip lyx.exe $ ls -l lyx*.exe -rwxrwxr-x 1 angus angus 163730444 Apr 22 14:52 lyx1.exe -rwxrwxr-x 1 angus angus 9978880 Apr 22 14:53 lyx.exe Wooooo. It's a different size! I guess I should reboot again and try it out... ... back again. The bloody error dialog popped up again, warning me that it couldn't find qt3.dll. I have NO idea where the linker is getting info about qt3.dll. Frankly, I no longer care. Windows is just evil. -- Angus
