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Paulo Matos

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Mar 21, 2006, 5:03:11 AM3/21/06

Hi all,

I'm using gentoo linux and I have a program in C++, built with
autotools, that links to log4cpp and glpk. However, when I move the
binary if I don't have this libraries there the binary won't run since
the linking was done dinamically. How can I do static linking?

Cheers,

Paulo Matos

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Mar 21, 2006, 8:21:04 AM3/21/06

Found the -static flag... Hope it does the trick! :)

> Cheers,
>
> Paulo Matos

Paul Pluzhnikov

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Mar 21, 2006, 10:07:36 AM3/21/06

"Paulo Matos" <pocm...@gmail.com> writes:

> Found the -static flag... Hope it does the trick! :)

This is *the* wrong way to solve this problem.
Your binary may crash and/or not work correctly when moved to a
different machine.

See this thread for gory details:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.development.apps/browse_frm/thread/f664f8f7c19a4a7b

Correct way to ensure that you don't depend on dynamic versions of
log4cpp and glpk, while still making your binary portable to other systems:

g++ ... -o myapp mayapp.o ... -Wl,-Bstatic -llog4cpp -lglpk -Wl,-Bdynamic

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