On Tue, May 21, 2002, Christoph Schug wrote:
> Why do we need zlib during run-time if we are building static only?
Because libz.a is not _included_ into libpng.a under built-time! libz.a
only contains (unsolved) references to symbols in libz.a, but not the
code of libz.a. So libz is needed under build-time mainly for the header
files (prototypes, etc) but it is still needed under link-time (and
for a library package this is its run-time!) to fulfill the symbol
references in libpng.a! The same is true for _all_ types of library
packages, independent whether static or dynamic code is built.
| $ nm -g /cw/lib/libpng.a | grep inflate
| U inflateReset
| U inflate
| U inflateReset
| U inflate
| U inflateEnd
| U inflateInit_
| U inflate
| U inflateReset
Ralf S. Engelschall
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