Re: Static compilation of hello world

[Tristan Van Berkom <vantr touchtunes com>]

Patricia Balbastre Betoret wrote:

> Hi!!
>
> I want to build statically a simple Hello World program. I have compiled glib, 
> pango, atk and gtk with --enable-static, so I have all .a libraries. However, 
> I get this error when compiling:
>
> gcc `pkg-config --libs --cflags gtk+-2.0`  -static -o base-static
> /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/3.3/../../../crt1.o(.text+0x18): In function 
> `_start':
> : undefined reference to `main'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make: *** [static] Error 1
>
> There is no problem when I compile without the static label:
> gcc `pkg-config --libs --cflags gtk+-2.0`  -o base base.c
>
> I have read somewhere that static compilation does not work very well in gtk, 
> but I do not know why. I really need to make gtk applications static, so if 
> it will be impossible (or very difficult) in gtk, it will be better for me to 
> know it in advance before continue.
>
> Thank you very much for your replies.
>  

so this works:
> gcc `pkg-config --libs --cflags gtk+-2.0`  -o base base.c


and this doesn't:
> gcc `pkg-config --libs --cflags gtk+-2.0`  -static -o base-static


try this:
gcc `pkg-config --libs --cflags gtk+-2.0` -static -o base-static base.c


Cheers,
               -Tristan

PS:
I sincerely hope I'm wrong ;-)