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

[Nathanael Noblet <nathanael gnat ca>]

On Jun 3, 2005, at 10:54 AM, 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.

I'm no expert in this area, that is for sure, but I'm pretty sure you 
can tell it during the configure stage what to do, using either 
configure flags or environment variables to use the static compilation, 
which would propagate to the makefile and change that for you. The 
exact method to do this, well I don't know it. I've seen places where I 
used configure and environment variables to affect these things.
For example when compiling your program, after you've compiled 
libxml2.a you could do
LD_FLAGS=-L./path/to/parent/of./.libs/libxml2.a ./configure
or use ./configure --with-libxml2-dir=/path....

??

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