Statically linking gtk+ is uncommon and discouraged by gtk+ developers
(see Extra Configuration Options in [1]). Also, I don't think we
should increase the package size for such an uncommon a use case.
Please compile gtk+ yourself if you want to link your application to it
statically.
[1]
I second this request. In contrast to your objection/warning, static
builds of current versions of gdk-pixbuf (and gtk3) work very well in my
experience. But they do not make much sense unless the loaders are also
linked statically. AFAIK, this requires one to configure gdk-pixbuf with
Thank you for your bug report, that's a known issue and somewhat
wanted, static build of gtk don't work well and we disabled the static
library for gtk too
** Changed in: gdk-pixbuf (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided = Wishlist
** Changed in: gdk-pixbuf (Ubuntu)
Status: New = Triaged
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