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Re: Building static

On Sat, 7 Dec 2002, Kevin Van Vechten wrote:

> On Saturday, December 7, 2002, at 09:25 AM, Jerry Pendergraft wrote:
>
> > Unfortunately specifying the full path links the library as an object
> > which will no doubt make your binary [much] larger than it needs to be.
>
> How does linking as an object make the binary much larger than linking
> static? These seem like the same thing to me... either way the object
> code of libgmp gets added to the binary. Maybe the compiler isn't as
> smart about removing dead code? Surely that could be done during a
> post compile phase...

Normally any given link does not need everything in the library.
If linked as an object you get everything, as -l<lib> you get only what
the end product actually needs. The difference can be large.

>
> > There are two ways to ensure -lgmp uses the .a library
> > 1) remove the .dylib form. Then the link must use the .a as found
>
> Nasty!
But effective ;^)
>
> > 2) specify -static -lgmp
>
> This was my first guess too, but i had trouble with -lcrt0.o.a not
> found. Anyone know what's up with that?
>
> -kvv
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