[Discuss] Compiling a binary

[p.willis at telus.net]

Quoting Hans Oeste <hoeste at shaw.ca>:
>   Is there a parameter that I can pass to ./configure to make it produce a
> static fully linked binary?

What libraries do you want embedded in your application?

Assuming you want a binary that will run on any system
regardless of what system libraries are there:
To statically link system libraries into your
binary would also require you to link all of the dependencies
for those libraries into your binary as well.

use ldd to get a list of dependencies for
your application, create a dependency tree,
make sure you link all those libraries into
your application.

Trouble will come when those libraries
begin to make 'dlopen' calls to paths that don't exist.

Peter