Re: RES: Libs for cross compilation

Hi,

Thanks for the information. Now it's alot to think of :)

All the best,
Kostik.

On Sat, 1 Mar 2003, Tor Lillqvist wrote:

> Friendly Ghost writes:
>  > The next stage is to find out how to statically link.
> 
> Don't. So much of GTK's and Pango's functionality depends on it
> finding its installation location at run time, which is handled by the
> DllMain function. DLLs feel so much the "Right Thing" on Windows. Too
> much hassle building also static libraries.
> 
> Please also consider what the LGPL (GNU library general public
> license) says:
> 
>   If you link a program with the library, you must provide
>   complete object files to the recipients so that they can relink them
>   with the library, after making changes to the library and recompiling
>   it.
> 
> I.e. if you link GLib, Pango, Atk or GTK statically with a program
> that you distribute, you *must* also make available the object files
> to your program so that users can make changes to GTK, and relink the
> program. Presumable you must also make available instructions how to
> build said LGPL libraries statically, as the normal distributions
> doesn't provide for such builds.
> 
>  > What names static libs have?
> 
> That depends on who builds them, and how... libtool presumably would
> call them (for instance) libgtk-win32-2.0.a. I think Hans Breuer has
> used a "s" suffix in the basename, maybe libgtk-win32-2.0s.lib?
> 
>  > And what are .dll.a?
> 
> Import libraries (for gcc).
> 
>  > My program itself if striped weights about 60Kb. With all those libs it
>  > weights about 2Mb and that's terrible.
> 
> If your program is that small, maybe you should reconsider whether GTK
> is the right toolkit for it. Or maybe you should think this way:
> *your* code is 60 kB, but all the functionality that GTK and Pango
> gives you are an essential part of the program's user interface, too.
> 
> Where did you get the 2 MB from, the GTK, Pango and GLib runtimes are
> well over 3.5 MB zipped...
> 
>  > If I'm correct that's how Patric did with his X-Chat. It only weights
>  > 600Kb and it's only one file. And it is much bigger program than mine is.
> 
> I don't know X-Chat or what its creator has done, but especially in an
> interactive application handling text, it would seem very silly and
> narrowminded to for instance cripple GTK's i18n features, complex text
> support, etc, just to make the distributable smaller.
> 
> --tml
> 
> 
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