On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks, Wei Dai.  I'll ask the Debian and Fedora packaging experts what they
> think.
>
> Here is the list of files included in the libcrypto++-dev package in Debian
> stable:
>
> http://packages.debian.org/lenny/amd64/libcrypto++-dev/filelist
>
> It does include libcryptopp.a.  I'll try linking against that.
>
> Dear Debian and Fedora packaging experts: please see Wei Dai's message
> below.  He is the author of Crypto++.
>
> Does anyone know how to specify that the "-lcryptopp" on your g++ command
> line should use the static lib in preference to the dynamic one?

Hi Zooko and all,

Unfortunately cryptopp on Fedora doesn't ship with a static library.
Packaging static libraries for Fedora is generally not recommended.
There's some rationale for this at
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Packaging_Static_Libraries

Regards, Ruben
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