On Jan 2 17:49, Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > I just figured that neither in the runtime, nor in the devel package of > > GLIB and GLIB2 are any traces of static libraries. > > Correct. > > > Is there any good reson for that? > > We decided from the beginning to build GNOME shared-only, some of the > reasons being: > > 1) The core GNOME libraries are backwards-compatible from one release to > the next; > 2) Many GNOME components contain modules, which of course don't make > sense to build static. > > That said, if there is a specific need for *glib* to be both shared and > static, that should be workable. > > > I'm asking since I'm going to prepare a package which would better be > > linked statically to GLIB2. While I have no problems to link the > > package dynamically against GLIB2, it would serve its purposes better if > > it could get rid of any package dependency besides cygwin itself. > > Gerrit maintains glib2, so you'll have to ask him, although for glib I > agree that an exception can be made.
Oh, yes, sorry about that. It's glib2 which would be helpful to exist in a static version, too. Gerrit? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat