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Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 03:33:02 +0000
From: Max Bowsher <maxb1 AT ukf DOT net>
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To: "Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports)" <yselkowitz AT users DOT sourceforge DOT net>
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Subject: Re: libtool: static libs where shared can't be built
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Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote:
> I have a libtool library that has undefined symbols by design, so I need
> to build it static.  But that seems to be impossible:
> 
> 1) Simply omit '-no-undefined':
> 
> /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link --tag=CXX g++  -Wno-long-long -Wundef
> -Wall -W -Wpointer-arith -DNDEBUG -DNO_DEBUG -O2 -O2 -pipe
> -Wno-non-virtual-dtor -fno-exceptions -fno-check-new -fno-common
> -DQT_CLEAN_NAMESPACE -DQT_NO_ASCII_CAST -DQT_NO_STL -DQT_NO_COMPAT
> -DQT_NO_TRANSLATION    -o libkscreensaver.la -rpath /usr/lib -L/usr/lib
> -L/usr/lib/qt3/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib    -R /usr/lib -R /usr/lib -R
> /usr/lib/qt3/lib -R /usr/X11R6/lib -version-info 6:0:2 main.lo
> kscreensaver.lo ../kio/libkio.la ../kdecore/libkdecore.la -lqt-mt  -lz
> -lpng -lz -lm -lXext -lX11  -lSM -lICE -lpthread
> libtool: link: warning: undefined symbols not allowed in i686-pc-cygwin
> shared libraries
> rm -fr  .libs/libkscreensaver.a .libs/libkscreensaver.la
> .libs/libkscreensaver.lai
> ar cru .libs/libkscreensaver.a
> ranlib .libs/libkscreensaver.a
> creating libkscreensaver.la
> (cd .libs && rm -f libkscreensaver.la && ln -s ../libkscreensaver.la
> libkscreensaver.la)
...

> Either way I get empty static libs.  Is there any way to make this work?

Check your config.log, specifically the result for "checking whether to
build static libraries".

If that's "no", try configuring with --enable-static to make it "yes".

Max.
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