Re: building a completely static executable (using boost regex library)

[Lorenzo Bettini]

Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Jul 2009, Lorenzo Bettini wrote:
> > I was trying to build, in linux, a completely static executable that 
> > uses libboost_regex;
> >
> > I issued
> >
> > configure LDFLAGS="-static"
> > make LDFLAGS="-all-static"
> >
> > but when it comes to linking I get this error:
> >
> > /bin/bash ../libtool --tag=CXX   --mode=link g++  -g -O2 -L/usr/lib 
> > -all-static -o check-regexp check-regexp_cmd.o check-regexp.o 
> > -lboost_regex ../gl/libgnu.la
> > libtool: link: g++ -g -O2 -static -o check-regexp check-regexp_cmd.o 
> > check-regexp.o  -L/usr/lib -lboost_regex ../gl/.libs/libgnu.a
> > /usr/lib/libboost_regex.a(static_mutex.o): In function 
> > `boost::scoped_static_mutex_lock::unlock()':
> >
> > what am I doing wrong?
>
> Your project is lacking a dependency on the thread library.  When static 
> linking, all the libraries that your library depends on need to be listed.

it looks like stdlib depends on that, but I thought there was a static 
version of that too... also libboost_regex seems to depend on that...

how can one know all the libraries to link to?  I'm using autotools, and 
I thought that it would take care of that...

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