A static library or statically-linked library is a set of routines, external functions and variables which are resolved in a caller at compile-time and copied into a target application by a compiler, linker, or binder, producing an object file and a stand-alone executable. This executable and the process of compiling it are both known as a static build of the program.
Questions tagged [static-linking]
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C++ global variable not initialized when linked through static libraries, but OK when compiled with source
I have created a system that automatically registers function objects (functors) into a map based on the constructor of an global instance.
In each cpp file that defines the functor, there's a global instance of the registrar class instance to…
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How to link a .DLL statically?
We have a (pure native C++) .DLL that is build by VS. As clients we have some native C++ applications and a .Net-Wrapper around this DLL written in C++/CLI. Finally there are some client applications for the .Net-Wrapper written in C#.
My problem is…
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MinGW creating dll.a files ? What type of library files are those?
I am fairly familiar with Windows and Linux libraries compilation but as for today when I have seen MinGW on my Windows machine threw out dll.a and .a files after OpenCV compilation I have started to seriously start thinking.
These are my \lib…
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How to compile Haskell to a static library?
Hey,
I'm learning Haskell and I'm interested in using it to make static libraries for using in Python and probably C. After some googling I found out how to get GHC to output a shared object, but it dynamically depends on GHC`s libraries.
The…
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PDB 'vc100.pdb' was not found with
I have downloaded the FreeImage source code and done a static build myself for X64 MT DLL.
Everything works fine, except when I use link in the freeimage.lib file I get a lot of annoying linker warnings which I don't quite understand the cause…
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Create a static Haskell Linux executable
It's not often two things I love so much come together to cause me so much annoyance (besides my kids). I've written a Haskell program at work that uses libraries like text, xml-enumerator, attoparsec-text, etc. I have it working properly on my…
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How to build a C program using a custom version of glibc and static linking?
I have built glibc 2.14 and installed it in directory ~/GLIBC/glibc_install. Now I want to build and run programs using this C library instead of my system's default C library.
To be sure that I was using my custom glibc, I added a call to puts…
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CMake: Linking statically against libgcc and libstdc++ into a shared library
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I am having difficulties linking glibcc/glibc++ into a shared library using CMake and GCC4.9 on my Ubuntu 16.04 installation.
Additional conditions:
Loading the shared library gives a problem om the Red Hat production environment(where I…
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How do I tell cmake I want my project to link libraries statically?
I'm trying to build an OpenCV-based project using CMake, running on Linux. So far my CMakeLists.txt files looks something like
FIND_PACKAGE (OpenCV REQUIRED)
...
TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES (my-executable ${OpenCV_LIBS})
but this results in dynamically…
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Can Clang compile code with GCC compiled .a libs?
I have my project currently compiling under gcc. It uses Boost, ZeroMQ as static .a libraries and some .so libraries like SDL. I want to go clang all the way but not right now. I wonder if it is possible to compile code that uses .a and .so…
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Why create a .a file from .o for static linking?
Consider this code:
one.c:
#include
int one() {
printf("one!\n");
return 1;
}
two.c:
#include
int two() {
printf("two!\n");
return 2;
}
prog.c
#include
int one();
int two();
int main(int argc, char…
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Proper way to link a static library using GCC
Why is it that some static libraries (lib*.a) can be linked in the same way that shared libraries (lib*.so) are linked (ld -l switch), but some can not?
I had always been taught that all libraries, static or not, can be linked with -l..., however…
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How can I statically link standard library to my C++ program?
I'm using Code::Blocks IDE(v13.12) with GNU GCC Compiler.
I want to the linker to link static versions of required runtime libraries for my programs, how may I do this?
I already know that my executable size will increase. Would you please tell me…
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Linking static library with JNI
Java versions prior Java 8 requires native code to be in a shared library, but I've read that with Java 8 it's possible to use static linked libraries with JNI. I have searched for examples but couldn't find any.
How can I statically link a JNI…
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Difference between linking OpenMP with -fopenmp and -lgomp
I've been struggling a weird problem the last few days. We create some libraries using GCC 4.8 which link some of their dependencies statically - eg. log4cplus or boost. For these libraries we have created Python bindings using boost-python.
Every…
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