Re: [gtk-list] again with GTK static linking

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

"Rostedt, Steven" <steven.rostedt@lmco.com> writes:

> So I am trying to build with the GTK libraries statically
> linked in.  This is being built on a Solaris machine for
> other Solaris machines (obviously). I'm currently using
> glib-1.2.6 and gtk+-1.2.6
> 
> Here's my problem.
> 
> I compile with:
> 
> gcc -o mytool mytool.o -L/opt/local/lib -L/usr/openwin/lib \
> -Wl,-Bstatic -lgtk -lgdk -lglib -lgmodule -Wl,-Bdynamic \
> -lXext -lX11 -lm
> 
> And I receive the following errors:
> 
> Undefined                       first referenced
>  symbol                             in file
> dlclose                             /opt/local/lib/libgmodule.a(gmodule.o)
> (symbol belongs to implicit dependency /usr/lib/libdl.so.1)
> dlsym                               /opt/local/lib/libgmodule.a(gmodule.o)
> (symbol belongs to implicit dependency /usr/lib/libdl.so.1)
> dlopen                              /opt/local/lib/libgmodule.a(gmodule.o)
> (symbol belongs to implicit dependency /usr/lib/libdl.so.1)
> dlerror                             /opt/local/lib/libgmodule.a(gmodule.o)
> (symbol belongs to implicit dependency /usr/lib/libdl.so.1)
> ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to mytool

Your problem is that Solaris doesn't allow dynamic loading from
a statically linkend executable. 
 
> Has anyone gotten around this?
> Do i have to recompile the glib to handle this.

Yes, you will need to do so. I think you should be able to do:

 G_MODULE_IMPL=0 ./configure 

to configure glib and it will properly disable dynamic loading.

> I hate to disable shared libs since I have several other tools
> that I use on this machine all using GTK.  But I need it
> statically linked to place it on the other machines 
> without going to 15 different sys admins and asking
> them to install GTK (I'd love them to do so but this is
> a small tool that the admins don't care about). 
> 
> Second Note:
>   Has anyone ever gotten GTK compiled on AIX 4.1 ?

Well, somebody posted a report of successful compilation on
4.3, at http://bugs.gnome.org/db/49/4976.html, though note
that the configure flags for glib there are bogus - they
are either not necessary or harmful and a straight 'configure'
should work as well.

 (except maybe for the --disable-shared flag .. though he doesn't
  mention using --disable-shared for GTK+, so I think that 
  might be bogus as well.)

The interesting part there may be the part about commenting
out HAVE_GETPWUID_R.

People certainly have gotten GTK+ working on AIX, though there
have been persistant problems with libtool. 
Joel Becker <jlbec@innerx.net> is sort of an expert on this.

I would suggest that somebody needs to make up a web page
or FAQ entry on using GTK+ with AIX, since it is a frequent
question, and rather too complicated for us non-AIX folks
to keep track of.
 
Regards,
                                        Owen