On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 03:11:43PM +0100, Patrick Scheibe wrote:
Is it possible to tell ghc to take all stuff out of the .so libs and compile my source to a "all-including" executable? I know that ghc just calls the linker which is doing this part. The --static flag for the linker just says: "take the static library if possible for linking...". But I don't have a static version of these libs and I don't want to recompile all libraries.
I often build my applications with "ghc -optl-static", which works for me most of the time, but: - You need to have static (.a) versions of libraries, which you don't have - At least on linux the NSS (name service switch) libraries are linked in dynamically even in statically linked programs. If you have incompatible nss libraries, your programs may crash. The workaround is to compile glibc with "--enable-static-nss" - There are some licensing issues with GMP Best regards Tomasz