Re: GTK-2.0 statically linked application does not work

[Alain VALLETON <Alain Valleton bigfoot com>]

Havoc Pennington wrote:
> michael <michael itk1 bas-net by> writes: 
> > All needed packages rebuilded with "--enable-static" option too.
> >   
>
> --enable-static just means "build static libraries"
>
> To use a fully statically linked GTK 2 you also need to be sure there
> aren't any dlopen() modules. The normal ones are in Pango, gdk-pixbuf,
> and GTK input methods.
>
> The configure options are something like --with-included-modules, 
> I don't remember exactly. It may even be in the docs in the "compiling
> GTK" section, hopefully.
Speaking of linking statically, why is there no simple method to get the option
needed to statically link an application against glib/gdk/gtk
 (and so on) libraries ?

pkg-config (glib-config, gtk-config, in the old pre-2.0 days) has no option
to return such options.
 
 I already posted on this subject on 17th february 2002 with a patch for
glib-config 1.2 (this had already been posted back in 1998).
 
 A "pkg-config --static-libs glib-2.0" would be a definite improvement (and
a cheap one at that).
 
 If this list is not the right one to make such a request, be so kind as
to show me the right path ;o)
 
 Have a nice day.