Re: Building all static

[Denis Vlasenko]

On Tuesday 02 November 2004 06:39, Bill Moseley wrote:
> Sorry for the cross post, not sure which is the correct list.
> 
> My project builds a library and then builds a binary and links to that
> library.  Someone has asked how to build a completely static binary.
> 
> I have been through this before.  I have a post[1] from May where I
> discuss building our project statically.
> 
> This has come up again and I'm wondering if I'm giving correct
> information on that post.
> 
> I have a few questions:
> 
> 1) The configure option --disable-shared works at linking our binary
> with our library statically, but still links the binary dynamically
> with other libraries.  I assume that's correct behavior.  What does
> the --enable-static option do (or suppose to do)?  It seems to have no
> effect when I use it.
> 
> 2) Is there a "standard" way to run configure that should build a
> completely static binary?
> 
> I know there's an -all-static flag for libtool.  Do I need to setup my
> Makefile.am special to allow building static via configure?

Does CFLAGS="-static" help?
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