On 2015-03-12 19:59-0400 Jim Dishaw wrote:

> What is the option for a pure static build on linux. I tried
BUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF and it still linked to some dynamic libraries
like Qt.

Hi Jim:

This is an interesting question.

Static linking is a difficult thing to get right so the last answer at
<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24648357/compiling-a-static-executable-with-cmake>
which is

============
add these lines before add_executable

SET(CMAKE_FIND_LIBRARY_SUFFIXES ".a")
SET(BUILD_SHARED_LIBRARIES OFF)
SET(CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS "-static")
============

may just be the start of your journey.  For example, if you set
CMAKE_FIND_LIBRARY_SUFFIXES that way is that just a preference for
finding *.a libraries if they exist or does that absolutely fail even
when there is a shared library of the correct root name that has been
installed?  This question is alluded to at
<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3762057/cmake-how-to-produce-binaries-as-static-as-possible>
where it is asserted that CMAKE_FIND_LIBRARY_SUFFIXES is a priority
list so I assume that means you would specify

-DCMAKE_FIND_LIBRARY_SUFFIXES:STRING=".a;.so"

to prioritize .a, but use .so if that is the only choice.

Note, also I assume you can set all these variables on the cmake
command line with a -D option (as just above) rather than having to
insert set commands in CMakeLists.txt files.

If starting from these hints you do have success producing pure static
libraries and executables for PLplot on Linux, please take notes so we
can advise our Linux users how to do that.

Alan
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