Re: Static linking on Windows

[Bruce Sherwood <Bruce_Sherwood ncsu edu>]

Thanks. Just for grins I tried the experiment of trying -static and 
indeed the build failed miserably.

With shared libraries, I seem to need to add all of the dll's listed 
below, which increases the length of the Python module (compared to 
using Windows-specific code) from 4 MB to 40 MB. Not a show-stopper, but 
a bit annoying as a download to add to Python. The crude way I figured 
out what dll's I needed was to try running the program from a typescript 
and get told that I was missing a library, then copying that library 
into the module's directory (I had previously changed the name of the 
MinGW directory to xxxMinGW to exclude finding the dll there).

Is there a more intelligent way to identify which dll's I need?

Could some of these be loaded statically even if not all of them can?

Bruce Sherwood

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iconv.dll
intl.dll
libatk-1.0-0.dll
libatkmm-1.6-1.dll
libcairo-2.dll
libcairomm-1.0-1.dll
libfontconfig-1.dll
libfreetype-6.dll
libgdk-win32-2.0-0.dll
libgdk_pixbuf-2.0-0.dll
libgdkglext-win32-1.0-0.dll
libgdkmm-2.4-1.dll
libglade-2.0-0.dll
libglademm-2.4-1.dll
libglib-2.0-0.dll
libglibmm-2.4-1.dll
libgmodule-2.0-0.dll
libgobject-2.0-0.dll
libgthread-2.0-0.dll
libgtk-win32-2.0-0.dll
libgtkglext-win32-1.0-0.dll
libgtkmm-2.4-1.dll
libpango-1.0-0.dll
libpangocairo-1.0-0.dll
libpangoft2-1.0-0.dll
libpangomm-1.4-1.dll
libpangowin32-1.0-0.dll
libpng12.dll
libsigc-2.0-0.dll
libxml2.dll
zlib1.dll


Murray Cumming wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 14:57 -0500, Bruce Sherwood wrote:
>
> > I've inherited gtkmm code used on Linux and am trying to use it on 
> > Windows. The current build machinery requires the presence of a large 
> > number of .dll files, which I can pass along to end users (who rarely 
> > will already have gtk installed),
>
> [snip]
>
> It's fairly well known that GTK+ can't be linked statically, because it
> loads some modules at runtime.
>
> I think your life will be simpler if you just ship the DLLs. That seems
> fairly normal on Windows anyway.