• mandel (4/4) Nov 06 2007 Hi,
• Steven Schveighoffer (7/11) Nov 06 2007 You could use -static on the link line. If you are using dmd, just copy...
• mandel (5/22) Nov 07 2007 glibc..ok. But what about other libraries like zlib?
• Steven Schveighoffer (11/37) Nov 07 2007 Ah. So you don't care if the binary is static or not, but you want to l...
• Gregor Richards (7/51) Nov 07 2007 The more-reliable but also more-GNU-specific version of this, if anybody...

mandel <mandel wormhole.nn> writes:

Hi,

I like to know how I can make a static build.
I can't get my program binaries to run on other linux
systems because some shared libs are missing.

"Steven Schveighoffer" <schveiguy yahoo.com> writes:

"mandel" wrote
 Hi,

 I like to know how I can make a static build.
 I can't get my program binaries to run on other linux
 systems because some shared libs are missing.

You could use -static on the link line.  If you are using dmd, just copy the 
link line it outputs to gcc and add the -static argument.

However, I don't recommend using this.  I have heard there are problems with 
statically linking against glibc, and the maintainers say they aren't going 
to fix it because nobody should be using static linking anymore...

-Steve 

mandel <mandel wormhole.nn> writes:

Steven Schveighoffer Wrote:

 
 "mandel" wrote
 Hi,

 I like to know how I can make a static build.
 I can't get my program binaries to run on other linux
 systems because some shared libs are missing.

 
 You could use -static on the link line.  If you are using dmd, just copy the 
 link line it outputs to gcc and add the -static argument.
 
 However, I don't recommend using this.  I have heard there are problems with 
 statically linking against glibc, and the maintainers say they aren't going 
 to fix it because nobody should be using static linking anymore...
 
 -Steve 
 

glibc..ok. But what about other libraries like zlib?
The issue is that I get error messages like
"./main: /usr/lib/libz.so.1: no version information available (required by
./main)"
the program get mostly killed after that.

"Steven Schveighoffer" <schveiguy yahoo.com> writes:

"mandel" wrote
 Steven Schveighoffer Wrote:

 "mandel" wrote
 Hi,

 I like to know how I can make a static build.
 I can't get my program binaries to run on other linux
 systems because some shared libs are missing.

 You could use -static on the link line.  If you are using dmd, just copy 
 the
 link line it outputs to gcc and add the -static argument.

 However, I don't recommend using this.  I have heard there are problems 
 with
 statically linking against glibc, and the maintainers say they aren't 
 going
 to fix it because nobody should be using static linking anymore...

 -Steve

 glibc..ok. But what about other libraries like zlib?
 The issue is that I get error messages like
 "./main: /usr/lib/libz.so.1: no version information available (required by 
 ./main)"
 the program get mostly killed after that.

Ah.  So you don't care if the binary is static or not, but you want to link 
statically against a library?  that's easy.

Most libraries have two forms on linux, a .so form, and a .a form.  To link 
specifically against the .a form, you have to specify the library file on 
the command line:

gcc .... -lz
becomes:
gcc .... /usr/lib/libz.a

This should do the trick.

-Steve 

Gregor Richards <Richards codu.org> writes:

Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
 "mandel" wrote
 Steven Schveighoffer Wrote:

 "mandel" wrote
 Hi,

 I like to know how I can make a static build.
 I can't get my program binaries to run on other linux
 systems because some shared libs are missing.

 You could use -static on the link line.  If you are using dmd, just copy 
 the
 link line it outputs to gcc and add the -static argument.

 However, I don't recommend using this.  I have heard there are problems 
 with
 statically linking against glibc, and the maintainers say they aren't 
 going
 to fix it because nobody should be using static linking anymore...

 -Steve

 glibc..ok. But what about other libraries like zlib?
 The issue is that I get error messages like
 "./main: /usr/lib/libz.so.1: no version information available (required by 
 ./main)"
 the program get mostly killed after that.

 
 Ah.  So you don't care if the binary is static or not, but you want to link 
 statically against a library?  that's easy.
 
 Most libraries have two forms on linux, a .so form, and a .a form.  To link 
 specifically against the .a form, you have to specify the library file on 
 the command line:
 
 gcc .... -lz
 becomes:
 gcc .... /usr/lib/libz.a
 
 This should do the trick.
 
 -Steve 
 
 

The more-reliable but also more-GNU-specific version of this, if anybody 
cares, is:
gcc -Wl,-Bstatic,-lz,-Bdynamic

This will work regardless of what path libz is in, but will not work 
with linkers other than GNU ld.

  - Gregor Richards