Gfortran: trouble creating statically link executable

[Marc Glisse]

On Sat, 1 Feb 2014, ken72cc wrote:

> I'm trying to create a standalone executable that will run on a system w/o
> fortran installed.  Spent the entire morning and cannot figure out how to do
> it.  If I try the following, I get an error message that the lapack library
> can't be found even though the static libraries exist in the specified
> directory.  Does -Wl-R somehow not work for static libraries?  It know it
> works for shared libraries.

You should read: man ld
-R (aka -rpath) is to find shared libraries at runtime. To find libraries 
(any kind) at compile-time, you want -L. Your distribution should provide 
either a symlink in a standard location or a common way (pkg-config, 
cmake, whatever) to discover this hidden location automatically.

-- 
Marc Glisse