RE: How to build static lib's - prob with gtk/glib

["Suhaib Siddiqi" <sssiddiqi at ipass dot net>]

Please check the configure script.  It could be possible that
GTK does not support static libs.  Several sofwtare do, for example
GGI
will build only as shared lib no matter what you do.  The GGI
was designed to be a shared lib only.  It could be same for GTK, I
do not know.  you could check the documents and/or configure scripts
if this is the case. You may need to modify configure script to
build dlls instead of *.so.

Suhaib

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com
> [mailto:cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com]On Behalf Of
> Kevin Wright
> Sent: Monday, September 27, 1999 5:58 PM
> To: 'Mumit Khan'
> Cc: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: RE: How to build static lib's - prob with gtk/glib
>
>
> Mumit Khan writes:
>
> >You need to ask the GTK folks about it. --disable-shared
> should have
> >created static libs only, but for some packages, that is
> not an option.
> >It's not possible to tell what the problem is from just
> what you've
> >posted, sorry.
>
> Here is a snippet of the output from running configure:
>
> checking for ld used by GCC... /bin/ld.exe
> checking if the linker (/bin/ld.exe) is GNU ld... yes
> checking for BSD-compatible nm... /bin/nm -B
> checking whether ln -s works... yes
> updating cache ./config.cache
> loading cache ./config.cache within ltconfig
> checking for object suffix... o
> checking for executable suffix... .exe
> checking for gcc option to produce PIC... none
> checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes
> checking if gcc supports -c -o file.lo... yes
> checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions ... yes
> checking if gcc static flag -static works... -static
> checking if the linker (/bin/ld.exe) is GNU ld... yes
> checking whether the linker (/bin/ld.exe) supports shared
> libraries... yes
> checking command to parse /bin/nm -B output... ok
> checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
> checking for /bin/ld.exe option to reload object files... -r
> checking dynamic linker characteristics... Win32 ld.exe
> checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes
> checking if package supports dlls... no
> checking whether to build shared libraries... no
> checking whether to build static libraries... yes
>
> It seams that the configure script is broken because even
> though I specify
> using no static libs, it still checks for whether libtool
> support shared
> libs and it still tries to create the shared libs. I
> realize this is not the
> fault of the compiler.
>
> Here is the snipped of output from the build process:
>
> /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link gcc  -g -O2 -Wall  -o
> libgdk.la -rpath
> /usr/local/lib -version-info 5:0:5 -release
> 1.2 -export-dynamic -L/usr/X11/lib -lXext -lX11 -lipc -lm
> gdk.lo gdkcc
> libtool: link: warning: undefined symbols not allowed in
> i686-pc-cygwin
> shared libraries
>
> Thanks to everyone who posted information regarding
> windows versions of gtk
> but I'm only interested in building this under cygwin using X.
>
> Kevin
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Mumit Khan [mailto:khan@thor.xraylith.wisc.edu]
> >Sent: Monday, September 27, 1999 12:31 PM
> >To: Kevin Wright
> >Cc: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
> >Subject: Re: How to build static lib's
> >
> >
> >"Kevin Wright" <kwright@aspectdv.com> writes:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I've been using cygwin for about a year and have
> >> always had some problems building static only
> >> versions of libraries such as glib and gtk+.
> >>
> >> Here's the configure options I've tried:
> >>
> >> ./configure --disable-shared --disable-shm --disable-nls
> >--no-recursion
> >>
> >> However, I still end up building the .lo & subsequent
> .la files.
> >> I tried hacking the libtool files but that was useless
> >because it gets
> >> created during the configure process. The problem is that
> >certain lib's
> >> programs fail with messages such as:
> >>
> >> gdk_imlib ERROR: Cannot load image:
> >> /usr/local/share/pixmaps/gnome-question.png
> >> All fallbacks failed.
> >>
> >> WARNING: previous dlopen of
> >> E:\usr\local\lib\libimlib-png.so wasn't correctly performed
> >
> >This problem is due to a bug in cygwin-b20, and is fixed
> in recent
> >snapshots. In most cases, it is quite harmless (unless
> you're creating
> >subprocesses using fork/exec, in which case odd things
> may happen).
> >
> >> Is there a way to make these libs truly static?
> >>
> >> I'm using gcc 2.95 and cygwin b20.1. Perhaps this is fixed in a
> >> newer snapshot of the cygwin1.dll but I am waiting for the
> >> complete installation package to be released.
> >
> >You need to ask the GTK folks about it. --disable-shared
> should have
> >created static libs only, but for some packages, that is
> not an option.
> >It's not possible to tell what the problem is from just
> what you've
> >posted, sorry.
> >
> >Regards,
> >Mumit
> >
> >
>
>
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