Re: [xml] Mac OS-X: Why are binaries linked against libxml2.dylib?

[Rush Manbert <rush manbert com>]

Rush Manbert wrote:

> Nathanael Noblet wrote:
>
> > On Jun 3, 2005, at 10:39 AM, Rush Manbert wrote:
> >
> > > Well, I could if I wanted to write my own makefile. All this stuff 
> > > is set up by ./configure, but there doesn't appear to be a 
> > > --with-static-binaries (or equivalent) flag. One of my goals is to 
> > > use the package as distributed to build and install, then do what I 
> > > need to do to make it usable in my situation. I don't want to 
> > > maintain my own xmllint project, for example. (I know it's pretty 
> > > simple in this case, but I have an identical problem with xsltproc, 
> > > which has more complicated dependencies...)
> >
> >
> >
> > You don't need to create your own makefiles. Set the flags before you 
> > call configure or make so for example:
> > LD_FLAGS=..... CFLAGS=... ./configure
> > and then
> > LD_FLAGS=.... CFLAGS=... make
> Oh, sorry. Yes, that's true if it were a command line flag. However, 
> the link line looks like this:
> gcc -g -O2 -pedantic -W -Wformat -Wunused -Wimplicit -Wreturn-type 
> -Wswitch -Wcomment -Wtrigraphs -Wformat -Wchar-subscripts 
> -Wuninitialized -Wparentheses -Wshadow -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align 
> -Wwrite-strings -Waggregate-return -Wstrict-prototypes 
> -Wmissing-prototypes -Wnested-externs -Winline -Wredundant-decls -o 
> .libs/xmllint xmllint.o  ./.libs/libxml2.dylib -lpthread -lm
>
> and I need it to look like this:
> gcc -g -O2 -pedantic -W -Wformat -Wunused -Wimplicit -Wreturn-type 
> -Wswitch -Wcomment -Wtrigraphs -Wformat -Wchar-subscripts 
> -Wuninitialized -Wparentheses -Wshadow -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align 
> -Wwrite-strings -Waggregate-return -Wstrict-prototypes 
> -Wmissing-prototypes -Wnested-externs -Winline -Wredundant-decls -o 
> .libs/xmllint xmllint.o  ./.libs/libxml2.a -lpthread -lm
>
> I don't know of a way to change this with the environment variables.
>
> - Rush
As I didn't say in my last reply, the difference is to use 
./.libs/libxml2.a instead of ./.libs/libxml2.dylib. All else is the same.