[lazarus] .so not static?

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Samuel Liddicott wrote:

> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Samuel Liddicott [mailto:sam at campbellsci.co.uk]
> > Sent: 13 August 1999 12:03 PM
> > To: lazarus at miraclec.com
> > Subject: RE: [lazarus] Nearly there.
> >
> > /usr/bin/ld: cannot open -lgtk: No such file or
> > directory
> 
> OK, I rollod my own ld to print the args and found them to be:
> 
> ld -dynamic-linker=/lib/ld-linux.so.2 -o ./lazarus ./link.res
> 
> So it seems link.res is the problem file.  Lo, and behold at the bottom of
> ./link.res is:
> 
> -lXi
> -lXext
> -lX11
> -lm
> -lgtk
> -lgdk
> -lglib
> -lc
> 
> Hmm.  Why does it only complain about -lgtk?  I delete a few lines from the
> file and find it complains about -lg*
> 
> I think its because all my gtk, gdk, glibs are .so and perhaps this is
> trying to static link.
> 
> How do I tell it to dynamic link?

Add -k-Bdynamic to the compiler options. '-k' tells the compiler to add
whatever comes after it to the linker options.

But it seems to me that you are on a aout system, and my guess is that the
gtk.so libraries are ELF shared libraries; in that case you cannot link them
to your binary.

Michael.