In case anybody cares, the answer to my question is this: 1. rebuild qt itself to support the static library (./configure -static; make). this adds a libqt.a where you have the various libqt.so files.
2. once you have this in place you can just throw -static onto your g++ command line or into your makefile 3. since qt/mac is not the same as qt/x11 (qt/mac speaks directly to aqua) you have to do the above steps on a mac. for any other unix a cross-compile would work. 4. now give your (obviously more bloated because of the static build) application to your mac buddy. 5. if time/cleverness permits, bundle everything in the correct place within a directory with a .app extension to bring the double-clickable mac experience to your application (note: i haven't figured this one out quite yet, but i'm doing some reading right now). Thanks to everyone who replied! Dave On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Matt Holland wrote: > On Tuesday, November 4, 2003, at 01:22 AM, David Margolis wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I don't know if there are many Qt developers on this list, but this > > seems > > like it might be more of a C++/gcc question anyway. > > > > I have built a Qt app on my Linux box that _should_ run on Mac OSX. > > To do > > this I am supposed to statically link the qt library. > > > > 1. I don't know how I am supposed to move/compile/whatever this > > library. > > Do you have a Mac OS X machine to play around on? If so, the way to > get open source libraries (and software in general) is Fink > (http://fink.sourceforge.net). Qt versions 2 and 3 are available in > Fink. > > If you are planning to cross-compile, I know nothing about that. > > > 2. I don't know where to put it or how to call it _statically_ from my > > app. > > The question isn't how to call the functions, but how to link the > library. I think (warning: I could be wrong) that gcc will generally > tell the linker to use a dynamic library if it is available, and > otherwise will link a static library. I'm pretty sure that you can > pass an option to gcc to change this behavior. > > You might check out http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/porting/index.php > for some tips on porting apps to OS X. It covers some weird little > details that you should be aware of. > > Good luck! > Matt > > > Any ideas (or URLs or anything) would be greatly appreciated. > > > > Thanks, > > Dave Margolis > > > > _______________________________________________ > > vox-tech mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > > > > > -- > Matt Holland > Population Biology Graduate Group > University of California > Davis, CA 95616 > > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
