Re: Static linking doesn't work

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

"Felix E. Klee" <felix klee inka de> writes:
> compiling my GTK-application worked fine until I added the -static flag
> to gcc. Now, I get many error messages that look like this:
>     /usr/lib/libgtkmm.a(accellabel.o): In function
> `Gtk::AccelLabel::isA(Gtk::Object *)':
> accellabel.o(.text+0x1a8): undefined reference to
> `gtk_accel_label_get_type'
>
> Here are the libraries that I include:
> -lgtk -lgdk -lgtkmm -lgdkmm -lgmodule -lglib -ldl -lXi -lXext -lX11 -lm
> -lsigc -lpthread -lgthread -lgtkextramm -lgtkextra
>
> What am I doing wrong?

Static linking cares about the order of the libraries on the link
line. They should be ordered according to dependency. I don't remember
the direction - either library A that depends on B must come before B,
or vice versa.

In any case, you have it mixed up - the right thing is one of these 
two orders:
  -lgtkmm -lgtk -lX11
or:
  -lX11 -lgtk -lgtkmm
not:
  -lgtk -lgtkmm -lX11
 
A quick look at the gcc docs should tell you which order to use.

Havoc