Re: LD_LIBRARY_PATH needed for gcc-3.4.5 executable

["Digvijoy Chatterjee" <chatterjee dot digvijoy at gmail dot com>]

On 5/26/06, David M. O'Brien <dmo61@lucent.com> wrote:
> Can anyone suggest a fix for this??
>
>
> I am compiling a program with gcc-3.4.5 g++.
> When I go to execute that program I get the following:
>
> ld.so.1: ./prog1: fatal: libstdc++.so.6: open failed: No such file or directory
>
> I can solve the issue by setting my LD_LIBRARY_PATH to the directory where
> libstdc++.so.6 is located.
>
> This program used to run with gcc-2.95.3 without resetting LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
>
> Question I have,
>
> Is there a way to compile my program so that there is no need to have the
> libstdc++.so.6 at runtime? Can I create a prog1, that contains all symbols and
> no need for this library when executing?
>
> If so, what are the command options for doing that? I have read over the g++ and
> ld documentation but can not seem to find the correct combination.
>
> Thanks,
> Dave
hi Dave ,
You can link it statically if you are ready to have a huge executable,
if you do  that then Dynamic Linking would not be needed at all ,all
the linking would be built inside the executable
I think -static is the switch to do that
HTH
Digz