Re: static mc

[zentara <zentara zentara net>]

Hi,

First I love mc, and always have 2 or 3 opened on my desktop.
This email concerns the static version requests.

In previous digests it was written:

> > As for the "stand-alone version", it's possible to link glib statically,
> > as well as other libraries.

> It would be nice to compile against static glib, but it needs to be done
> manually.  For example, move shared glib library temporarily to some other
> place.  Another approach is to redefine GLIB_LIBS, e.g.
>
> make GLIB_LIBS=/usr/local/lib/libglib.a

I have experimented with compiling mc 4.6.0 statically
to put on a rescue cdrom.

This was the method I used:

1.  First make a glib-2.0 with static libs enabled:
          ./configure --enable-static
              and install


2.  Next configure mc:
       ./configure --disable-shared --without-x

     Then go thru toplevel Makefile and src/Makefile,
         and add -static to the LIBS line
          LIBS = -static

It produced an mc that was 1.18 megs stripped, and I further
reduced it by applying upx to it. It ended up 528k.

It runs fine from the harddrive, but when I try to run it from
a boot cdrom, I get some error (Can't remember offhand),
but I think it has to do with gtk2; because a similar older mc,
from gtk1 days dosn't give a problem.

Keep up the great work.
zentara

















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