[Distutils] static linking in distutils/setuptools?

[Trent Mick]

[Bob Ippolito wrote]
> 
> On Jan 26, 2006, at 3:29 PM, Robert Kern wrote:
> 
> > Stefan Seefeld wrote:
> >> Robert Kern wrote:
> >
> >>> Not really, no. In many cases (e.g., GNU ld), there's simply no  
> >>> way to tell the
> >>> linker that you prefer static libraries to shared libraries when  
> >>> you are
> >>> building a shared library like a Python extension. You simply  
> >>> have to make sure
> >>> that the static libraries are found first.
> >>
> >> I believe this is wrong. The (GNU ld) man pages mention '- 
> >> Bdynamic' and '-Bstatic'
> >> as a means to instruct the linker to link to a particular library  
> >> dynamically or
> >> statically. (To only link statically to libbar.a you could write e.g.
> >>
> >> ... -lfoo -Bstatic -lbar -Bdynamic -lbaz
> >>
> >> etc.)
> >
> > Ah, yes, you are correct. Unfortunately, OS X's ld does not have  
> > these options
> > (and is not GNU; I am an idiot).
> 
> What I normally do is specify the full path to the library in  
> extra_link_args, and remove it from the libraries list.

Ditto.

Trent

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