Re: Static library with Gtk 3

[Lucas Levrel <llevrel yahoo fr>]

Le 30 novembre 2017, à 12:44, Emmanuele Bassi a écrit :

> To be fair, there's literally no reason whatsoever to do a static
> build; this is not 1983. You're going to waste more resources (loading
> time, storage space) doing a static build of everything, these days.

I think there are some good reasons. For example, see 
http://www.musl-libc.org/intro.html . However I'm no expert in this field, 
so I'm not going to argue myself; I'm just saying that there are experts 
who do static linking, so there must be good reasons to do so.

> My strong suggestion is to simply ship your application in a bundled
> archive that replicates the file system layout that GTK expects,
> alongside a launcher

Is this supposed to save loading time and storage space?


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Lucas Levrel