Hi all, I second Adam's request, I am looking for any sort of document about building static Perl with modules, and what is its advantages and disadvantages.
Best Regards, Mahdi. -----Original Message----- From: Adam Kennedy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 9:26 PM To: Dbi-Users; Gary L. Burnore Subject: Re: Building static Perl that includes DBI and DBD::Informix inside??? Hrm... Is there a HOWTO on this somewhere? We wanted to put a version of perl with a bunch of modules compiled in onto a CD... I'd thought it would be very difficult... but compiling in modules would make life a lot easier... Adam ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gary L. Burnore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Dbi-Users" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Dbi-Users" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 2:36 AM Subject: Re: Building static Perl that includes DBI and DBD::Informix inside??? > At 10:24 10/18/2001, you wrote: > Hi all, > > Is it possible to create and install a 'perl' executable > with DBI and DBD::Informix statically linked? > > I am asking this because I read somewhere that this is doable > for example with Image::Magick module. > > > Yes, it is. In fact on our SCO OpenServer platforms it's the only way we > could get it to work. If run configure with the --static option, then make > sure you compile in everything you want at the same time, you should be > fine. We had to compile the Informix:DBI in last as there were issues with > claims of missing libraries that are actually there when we tried to > commpile in the Informix first, then another module. >
