[CMake] Can't get static executable

[Eneko Nieto]

Hi Steven,

let me ask you certain questions:
* What is the release date of 2.6?
* Is that feature in the CVS?
* Is there a way to achieve this manually?

Thanks for the response

Eneko

On Friday 11 January 2008 12:55:40 Steven Van Ingelgem wrote:
> I'm anxiously waiting on this feature as well.
>
> I have been in communication with Brad King about this and he told me
> it's no easy feat. He has to rewrite a lot of the linking algorithm to
> allow archive-libraries.
>
> He also told me that it'll be available in CMake 2.6.0, so I'm afraid
> we're out of luck there for quite some time.
>
>
> Greetings
>
> On 11/01/2008, Eneko Nieto <eneko at bluexare.org> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I wanted to compile Gammu for getting a static executable but I didn't
> > achieve. I asked in the Gammu mailing list but the actual maintainer
> > answered he didn't know how to configure CMake for compiling statically.
> > More info in the original mail.
> >
> > Could anyone help me?
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> >
> > Eneko
> >
> > On Friday 11 January 2008 10:20:59 Michal Čihař wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 09:54:40 +0100
> > >
> > > Eneko Nieto <eneko at bluexare.org> wrote:
> > > > Now, my problem. I want to get a static gammu executable for using it
> > > > in systems with no libc, bluez and no other dependencies. I tried it
> > > > with normal compile (./configure;make) and with CMake (mkdir build;cd
> > > > build;cmake ..;ccmake ..) setting CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS to -static.
> > > >
> > > > Sadly my result is always the same:
> > > > $ file ./gammu/gammu
> > > > ./gammu/gammu: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1
> > > > (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.6.0, dynamically linked (uses shared libs),
> > > > not stripped
> > > >
> > > > Could anyone help me?
> > >
> > > I have no idea how to force CMake to linking external libraries as
> > > static as FIND_LIBRARY seems to prefer .so in all cases. Try asking on
> > > CMake mailing list.
> >
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