On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:21:03 -0500 Mikel King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. =================== From: Colin Leroy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 ========================== 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 -- _ /o\ // \\ The ASCII \\ // Ribbon Campaign \V/ Against HTML /A\ eMail! // \\
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