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From: Lars Uffmann on 6 May 2008 07:28
Hi everyone!

I'm kinda trying to get to the root of the following problem and would
appreciate if someone could help me to tell apart wxWidgets dynamic from
static library builds:

I built wxWidgets on MinGW using
./configure --prefix=/mingw
make
make install

which had me ending up with the lib files in /mingw/lib:
libwx_base-2.8.dll.a

....

and
wxbase28_gcc_custom.dll
....

I can compile and link programs just fine as long as I want to use the
DLLs: the program will just expect the DLLs anywhere in the folders
contained in PATH variable (or local folder).

However, if I link the executable with g++ -static, I get the linker
complaining:
ld.exe: cannot find -lwx_base-2.8

So - since the .dll.a was confusing me anyways, I tried both renaming
the libraries to .a (since they seem to be the static versions) and
linking from the MSYS shell, supplying the libraries as -lwx_base-2.8.dll
Both solutions "work" - meaning the linker will not complain, and
produce an executable. However, this executable will be the very same as
if I never used the -static linker flag, and require the DLL-files to run.

Can anyone tell me why my mingw gnu c++ linker is not creating the
statically linked executable? Maybe I have not build the correct
wxWidgets libraries? The .dll.a files start with !<arch> - which seems
to be the correct file type for static libaries, so I am quite at a loss
here...

Thanks in advance!

Lars
From: Lars Uffmann on 6 May 2008 09:37
Hi Werner,

Werner Smekal wrote:
> In order to obtain static libraries you need to configure wxWidgets like
> this:
> ./configure --prefix=/mingw --disable-shared

Thank you! This was exactly what I needed. Everything is working as
intended now. Mind if I mention you with full name & newsgroup in the
credits of my MSYS/MinGW + Eclipse CDT + wxWidgets (+ boost + xerces-c)
installation guide? :)

Best Regards,

Lars
From: Werner Smekal on 6 May 2008 11:37
Hi Lars,

> Thank you! This was exactly what I needed. Everything is working as
> intended now. Mind if I mention you with full name & newsgroup in the
> credits of my MSYS/MinGW + Eclipse CDT + wxWidgets (+ boost + xerces-c)
> installation guide? :)

Sure, no problem ;)

regards,
Werner

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