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Re: Compiling "static" applications with SWT/GTK
On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 14:41, Erik Poupaert wrote:
> dlls, so's, jres, jars are becoming all-pervasive as a deployment method, while
> linking statically is becoming more and more difficult, even more so on linux than on
> win32. It takes all kinds of increasingly difficult tricks and workarounds to link
> statically (try SWT 3.0, for example).
>
> Indeed, stronger forces are pushing us in that direction. You can try to struggle ...
> I think, however, that in the end, we will be assimilated.
I admit to having not read this entire thread, but I'm not sure I agree
with your gloomy prognosis for the future of statically linked apps.
The new ABI should make compiling and linking static apps easier than
ever. I don't see why statically linking libgcj shouldn't always work
for many applications. It also shouldn't require rebuilding libgcj from
scratch to get a special .a version of the library for Linux.
AG
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Anthony Green <green@redhat.com>
Red Hat, Inc.