At 12:50 PM 6/9/2006, Jorgen Bodde wrote: >Hi Philip, > >Thanks for the info. The problem is that wx-config outputs a whole lot of >flags including the /usr/lib .. /usr/lib contains a lot of libs I need so I >think I will have to make shortcuts to them all .. > >But, it sounds doable! Thanks! > >- Jorgen > >Phillip Hellewell wrote: >>On 6/9/06, *Jorgen Bodde* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> >>wrote: >> Hi Alex, >> Thank you for your reply. I want to statically link as much libs as >> possible (especially wxGTK2.6.3) .. The reason is that my app needs to >> distributed. When I have wxGTK2.6.1 installed in /usr/lib it always >> takes those instead of my own absolute path. >> I do not really mind if it is portable or not, I just want GCC to take >> the proper libraries. And I feel limited now because I do have wxGTK >> 2.6.1 installed as RPM (in /usr/lib) because it is needed by some apps, >> but I cannot even link against my own built wx-libs (located somewhere >> else) because GCC always takes the .so versions in /usr/lib. To me that >> sounds rather limiting. >> >>Here is a trick I learned. Just make a directory, for example >>/usr/lib/static, and create symbolic links in there that point to the >>libraries you want to link statically. >>Then all you need is a LINK_DIRECTORIES( /usr/lib/static ), and thenit will >>pick those static libraries first. >>Phillip Hellewell
The other option is to add -static to the link flags. For example when building cmake for sunos we do this:CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS:STRING=-Bstatic -Bill _______________________________________________ CMake mailing list CMake@cmake.org http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake
