So this email prompted me to try something a little crazy, but it worked; I just built a statically linked tesseract binary :)
A long time ago I wrote some plain makefiles which didn't rely on any automake / cmake stuff. The main devs weren't interested, understandably, but it was useful and fun for me. This was before the code was in git, and when lots of training stuff was in the repository, so sharing my changes wasn't easy and I never bothered. I decided to dig out those makefiles and update them to track the current codebase, in part because it seemed like a nice idea, and also because I thought it might be an easy way to see if static linking was easy. I added a directory called 'simplemake' to the root of the tesseract repository, which contains a Makefile and a config.mk file (as well as several files that just list where source files are and what to do with them). It worked well, so I pushed it to a branch called 'simplemake-integrated'; see: https://github.com/nickjwhite/tesseract/tree/simplemake-integrated To enable static linking just edit 'simplemake/config.mk' to uncomment the two lines underneath the line: # Needed for static linking (uncomment lines to enable static linking) Note that you'll need the dev packages of various image decoding libraries installed, providing the .a (static) libraries. Hopefully your distribution provides these easily. My distribution (Debian stable) does for everything except for openjp2, which I had to build myself to get the appropriate .a file. This make infrastructure is something I quite like, and it is completely self-contained; it can happily co-exist alongside the existing build infrastructure, as cmake is doing now. Whether anybody else is interested in it I don't know, but it is a very simple, fast, and customisable way of building, and definitely works correctly with -j12 or whatever I have thrown at it. Any feedback would be very welcome indeed. Nick -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "tesseract-ocr" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tesseract-ocr+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tesseract-ocr@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tesseract-ocr. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tesseract-ocr/20160121195625.GA15033%40manta.lan. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
