[CMake] Creating static executables

[Ajay Divekar]

I tried your suggestion by setting

SET_TARGET_PROPERTIES (bbb PROPERTIES LINK_FLAGS "-static -lc -lm 
-L/usr/local/lib/")

The result is the same i.e. the executable generated is not completely static. 
Still has shared library dependencies. The output generated after doing ldd 
bbb is

        libz.so.2 => /lib/libz.so.2 (0x28233000)
        libm.so.3 => /lib/libm.so.3 (0x28243000)
        libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5 (0x2825e000)


Regards,

Ajay

On Friday 08 June 2007 15:08, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> On 2007-06-08 14:37-0400 Ajay Divekar wrote:
> > I am trying to create a static executable and for that I have already
> > defined using ADD_Definitions the -static option.
> >
> > But after it is build and when I do
> > ldd bbb (where bbb is the executable that was just generated)
> >
> > 	The output of the above command is
> >
> > libz.so.3 => /lib/libz.so.3 (0x281df000)
> > libstdc++.so.6=>
> > /usr/local/lib/gcc/i386-portbld-freebsd6.2/3.4.6/libstdc++.so.6 libm.so.4
> > => /lib/libm.so.4 (0x282b1000)
> > libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x282c7000)
> > libgcc_s.so.1=>
> > /usr/local/lib/gcc/i386-portbld-freebsd6.2/3.4.6/libgcc_s.so.1 libz.so.2
> > => /lib/libz.so.2 (0x2814f000)
> > libm.so.3 => /lib/libm.so.3 (0x2815f000)
> > libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5 (0x2817a000)
> >
> > I want my executable to be static as this will make it completely
> > platform independent.
> >
> > All these are system libraries and some of them are gcc releated. Is
> > there anyway to create a static library library without any shared
> > library dependency.
>
> Let me make a general comment first. Virtually every platform has a linker
> option for building static executables.  For example, on Linux see the
> -Bstatic (or -static) linker option documented in 'man ld'.  Once you have
> decided what linker option you need for static executables on your
> platform(s), then you have to tell cmake about it.
>
> Now to get specific, I don't think you specified the -static linker option
> correctly above when you specified -static with ADD_DEFINITIONS.  Use
> -DCMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE=ON to see exactly where that -static option is
> being used.  My guess is it would just be the compile stage and not the
> link stage.  I suggest you try the LINK_FLAGS property of
> SET_TARGET_PROPERTIES, instead.
>
> Alan
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