Re: statically linked GTK+ & glibc libraries

[John Cupitt <john cupitt ng-london org uk>]

Daniel Ding wrote:
> I am a developer of Freewebfone for Linux, a free video phone software based
> on GTK+. We can compile and run Freewebfone on Red Hat Linux. However, many
> users complained they were unable run it on other distributions such as SuSE
> or Debian as they got dependency errors to the glibc libraries.
> 
> Is there a way that we can link GTK+ & glibc libraries statically? How to do
> that?

Hi Daniel, take a look at the Makefile generated by automake for your project.
Look for LDADD and check the libraries you are linking against. Every time you
see a library which might cause a problem (eg. libtiff, libgtk, etc.), wrap a
"-Wl,-Bstatic" / "-Wl,-Bdynamic" pair around it.

For example:

LDADD = -L/usr/X11R6/lib \
        -Wl,-Bstatic -lgtk -lgdk -rdynamic -lgmodule -lglib -Wl,-Bdynamic \
        -lXi -lXext -lX11 -lXpm -lSM -lICE \
        -Wl,-Bstatic -ltiff -ljpeg -lz -Wl,-Bdynamic \
        -lm -lpthread -ldl

As far as I know, there's no way to do this automatically :-( 

John