Re: "complete installation package" / static binary / results cells

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 08:47:25PM -0500, nashjc uottawa ca wrote:
> - As I'm planning to work on a build-bot for gnumeric (and R), I'm
> thinking of looking into a static binary i.e., include everything. Not
> what most folk want to have cluttering their hard drive, but maybe OK on
> an archive DVD. And also folk with old distros could benefit from such a
> binary, though it would be a bit of a heavy download. Has anyone attempted
> this? I'd appreciate knowing and also any tips.

Yes and no.  It is feasible to make things self contained, but a
fully static build is not supported at the gnumeric level.  Gtk and
pango have some capability to compile in the modules (image loading,
font support) but gnumeric does not support that.  We're scattered
across a plethora of files and there's no likelihood of that
changing.  However, the files are well versioned.  Making a
selfcontained blob of the relevent files is feasible.  The win32
installer takes that approach and creates a
    <prefix>/Gnumeric/<version>/{bin,etc,share,lib}