Re: [Plplot-general] Static-linked, stand-alone executables?

[ooOoo <jg3...@ya...>]

Thanks very much for the tips and helpful
explanations.
The following older message was also quite
informative:

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=6293797

In case others have a need to make the occasional
stand-alone program for friends, I will post what
worked for me (note that I have been slow to make good
use of pkg-config to manage libraries).

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1. I created a separate plplot-5.3.0 installation just

   for static linking.

  I turned off everything I did not need by editing
  configure.  Here are the options I used:

  with_debug=no     with_opt=yes        with_double=no
  with_profile=no   with_warn=no        with_pkgdir=
  with_rpath=yes    with_nobraindead=no with_csa=no   
  with_freetype=no  with_qhull=no           
  with_pthreads=no  with_ltdlsystem=no

  enable_shared=no  enable_drivers=yes  
  enable_dyndrivers=no
  enable_f77=yes    enable_cxx=yes        
  enable_python=no
  enable_tcl=no     enable_itcl=no      enable_java=no
  enable_octave=no  enable_gnome=no     enable_ntk=no
  enable_tkwin=no   enable_png=no       enable_jpeg=no
  enable_cgm=no     enable_tk=no       
enable_xwin=yes

  enable_ljii=yes   enable_ljiip=yes    enable_pbm=yes
  enable_ps=yes     enable_pstex=yes   
enable_xfig=yes

  I then did "./configure --prefix=/usr/local/static",

  "make",and "make install".

2. To link my f77 programs, I found that the following
   flags worked:

   PLTLIBS = -L /usr/local/static/lib -lplplotf77 \
             -lplplotcxx -lplplot
   XTRALIBS = -I/usr/local/static/include/plplot \
              -L/usr/X11R6/lib \
              -lX11 -lieee -lm -l pthread

   ... and I included the "-static" option on my link 
   command.

  Next, I used "strip" to reduce the size (from 2.5 M 
  to 1.5 M) of the executable files (the dynamically  
  linked executables were only 55 k).

3. At first, the programs failed on a non-plplot 
   computer, giving an error about missing font files.
 
   I copied the plplot font files
   (/usr/local/static/share/plplot5.3.0/plstnd5.fnt 
   & plxtnd5.fnt) to the working directory, and then 
   the programs ran fine.

From a happy plplot user - jg.



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