On Wed, Dec 5, 2018 at 5:12 PM Ranjan Ghosh <gh...@pw6.de> wrote: > > Hmm. I think it doesnt work that easily. Actually, I'm trying to build a > static pdf2svg which users poppler in turn. I tried to follow your > advice and installed libcairo-dev, libopenjp2-7-dev, libjpeg-dev, etc. > and then simply compiled poppler with -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF. When I > subsequently tried to compile pdf2svg as static with the static poppler > I get: > > /usr/bin/ld: /usr/local/lib/libpoppler-glib.a(CairoFontEngine.cc.o): > undefined reference to symbol 'FT_Library_Version' > /usr/bin/ld: //usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreetype.so.6: error adding > symbols: DSO missing from command line > > I think the reason is that I actually must compile every single > contributing library that is used by poppler as fully static beforehand > instead of just installing them with apt, right?
Your linking error occurs because you're missing -lfreetype. When static linking you need to include the linker flags for all the dependencies. Unfortunately poppler does not correctly record it's private dependencies in the pkg-config file, but try linking with these flags: pkg-config --libs --static poppler-cpp cairo lcms2 libopenjp2 libtiff-4 _______________________________________________ poppler mailing list poppler@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler