Re: Static linking

[Tristan Van Berkom <vantr touchtunes com>]

Johannes Tanzler wrote:

> On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 17:56, Russell Shaw wrote:
>  
>
> > How do i get "pkg-config gtk+-2.0 --libs" to put out -static
> > instead of --export-dynamic ?
> >    
>
> Try 
>
>  `pkg-config --libs gtk+-2.0` -static
>
> The explicit "-static" overrides "--export-dynamic".
>
>  
hmmm,
       --export-dynamic [ is an option to ld ]
       -static                   [ is a linker option to gcc ]

Usualy object files are linked according to the preceeding option passed,
i.e.:

gcc -o prog  prog.c  -shared -lone -static -ltwo

will create a program out of prog.o and libtwo.a
that links dynamicly with the object file `libone.so'

Are you sure that gcc doesn't pass `--export-dynamic' to the linker if it
finds `-static' on its command line ?

I could use some enlightenment on this subject ;-)

Cheers,
                               -Tristan