Re: GTK static libs

[rsmith xs4all nl]

On 30 Jan, Erik Mouw wrote:
> > 2. Is there a elegant method to compile one time with static, another
> > time with dynamic libs??
>  
>  Not that I'm aware of. Probably the elegant option doesn't exist because
>  a) dynamic linking is the Right Thing [tm], and b) static linking is *very*
>  OS/compiler dependent (-static won't work on SGI IRIX, for example).

You can pass options to the linker on the GCC command line (with -Wl or
-Xlinker). According to the ld info pages you can use the -Bdynamic and
-Bstatic flags to link dynamically resp. statically to the library
following the switch. Is this what you mean? (haven't tried this,
though ;-)

Roland
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