Re: GTK static libs

["Shead, Tim" <tshead ebay com>]

> > 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). 

Dynamic linking with libmydynamiclib.so:

gcc -o foo foo.o -lmydynamiclib

Static linking with libmystaticlib.a:

gcc -o foo foo.o libmystaticlib.a

In other words, treat the library as if it were another object file, which
is what it really is, anyway (you have to know the path, of course).

Timothy M. Shead
tshead@ebay.com