Re: Producing a staticly-linked package from ports

On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:21:03 -0500
Mikel King <mikel.king@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Although I know this can be done, I am not certain of the exact
procedure.

Looks like this can NOT be done. I asked the author of claws-mail, and
received this response.

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From: Colin Leroy <colin@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: claws-mail-users@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: rrichard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: statically-linked version of CM
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:15:52 +0100
X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.1.0cvs44 (GTK+ 2.12.0; i686-pc-linux-gnu)

On 30 November 2007 at 11h11, Bob Richards wrote:

Hi,

I compiled claws-mail 3.0.2 with make CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -static", but
when I moved the executable to the older install and tried to execute
it I get: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libgailutil.so.18" not
found, required by "claws-mail"

What is the proper way to produce a statically compiled claws-mail?

I don't know... I think the problem is that libgtk uses dlopen() to open
modules, so you can't really statically link a GTK app...

--
Colin


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So, at least in the case of claws-mail, this does not appear to be
possible. Unless someone here has something else to try?

Bob

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