Re: Statically linking octave-2.1.72 in MacOS X

[Carlos Sánchez de La Lama]

Hello Joe,

> > I have been trying to compile octave-2.1.72 in my Tiger iBook, and
> > after peering a bit on this list I found the accepted method for
> > doing it is to use dynamic libraries (configure --enable-shared --
> > enable-dynamic --disable-static). Personally I do not like fixing
> > linking errors this way, it makes me feel something is not really
> > fixed but only somehow "hidden", so after some testing I have found a
> > way to compile it statically. I send it to the list just it is useful
> > for someone.
>
> If I'm wrong, jwe can correct me, but the purpose of enabling dynamic
> linking is to allow .oct (compiled C or Fortran) files to be easily
> accessible. You also get a much smaller executable than if you  
> statically
> load everything including the kitchen sink. Correct? I initially  
> had the
> same feeling that a static linking approach would be better, but  
> have found
> that the dynamic library approach works just fine with octave.

Of course, what you say makes a lot of sense. I used octave when I  
was at university some years ago, and now I am starting to use it  
again but never did anything with compiled C/Fortran files, so that  
is something I was not aware of.
Anyway, even in a general sense, I know that the use of dynamic  
linking has a lot of advantages (perhaps the most obvious being the  
executable size reduction) and a complete statically-linked exec is  
only better if you want to distribute it and do not want to worry  
about dependences. The point here is that I do not feel comfortable  
with linking errors that "magically" disappear when enabling shared  
libs and I wanted to find the way to fix that errors without doing that.


Carlos Sánchez de La Lama
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