[sword-devel] Answers: gcc vs egcs and linking statically

[Troy A. Griffitts]

Thanks for the feedback!!! This will come in very handy.  I will try to
use these compiler flags when linking the final binaries.  I'll let ya
know how it goes.


> there are two questions / problems that I can help with:
> 
> 1. gcc vs egcs
>    gcc 2.8 is dead and egcs is the official gnu compiler.  gcc 2.95.x is
>    really egcs heading for gcc 3
> 
> 2. statically linking
>    there are two possible ways for linking some specific libraries static
>    while all the others remain dynamically:
> 
>    - present the full path of libLIB.a to the linker (this solution is
>      dependent to your personal system and should not be used in public
>      makefiles)
> 
>    - command the linker explicit to link some libraries static:
>          g++ [...] -Wl,-Bstatic -lqt -Wl,-Bdynamic [...]
>      `-Wl,OPTION'
>      Pass OPTION as an option to the linker.  If OPTION contains
>      commas, it is split into multiple options at the commas.
>                                                      [from gcc.info]
>      This one should be used for public Makefiles.
> 
> BTW: Reading the manuals (like the bible) is a great thing to do ;-))