Re: [Mingw-users] Cannot build a statically linked gtk+ app

[Brian D. <br...@de...>]

Randy Reed wrote:

> #COMPILE DIRECTIVE FOR THE MAIN
> /cygdrive/d/Dev-Cpp/bin/gcc.exe -mwindows -mno-cygwin -mms-bitfields
> -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I"d:/Dev-Cpp/INCLUDE/GDK"  -I"d:/Dev-Cpp/include/gtk"
> -c vlgc_main.c -Bstatic -o vlgc_main.o

-Bstatic and -mwindows when compiling (-c) don't make any sense.  Those
are only relevant when linking.  (And -Bstatic is a linker flag anyway,
not a compiler flag, so if anything it would need to be -Wl,-Bstatic. 
But gcc does this automatically when you specify just plain -static.)

> #COMPILE DIRECTIVE FOR LINKAGE
> /cygdrive/d/Dev-Cpp/bin/gcc.exe -mwindows -mno-cygwin -mms-bitfields
> -DHAVE_CONFIG_H --static -static -Wl,-static \
>        -I"d:/Dev-Cpp/INCLUDE/GDK"  -I"d:/Dev-Cpp/include/gtk"  \
>        vlgc_main.o vlgc_popups.o  ../../AMEgtk/src/menubar.o\
>        -L"lib" "d:/Dev-Cpp/Lib/libz.a"
> "d:/Dev-Cpp/Lib/libglib-2.0.dll.a" "d:/Dev-Cpp/Lib/libgtk.dll.a"
> "d:/Dev-Cpp/Lib/libgdk.dll.a" -o ../bin/voodoolabGS.exe

You're linking against import libraries (.dll.a), so of course it's
going to link the DLLs -- you've given it no choice.  Those are not
static versions of the libraries, they are import libraries.

Also, "--static -static -Wl,-static" just looks like desperation.  You
only need "-static".  Moreover, -I during linking is meaningless, since
the preprocessor does not run.

You should be able to just specify simply:

-static -L"d:/Dev-Cpp/Lib/" -lz -lglib-2.0 -lgtk -lgdk

Brian