[Spread-users] use a static lib, get rid of .so?

[Michael Chelnokov]

use a static lib, get rid of .so?Hello Allen,

It is default gcc behaviour, when it searches .so for first. You can 
override it by specifiyng a full library name. For example, 
/usr/local/lib/libspread.a instead of -lspread.

Best regards,
Michael Chelnokov.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Allen Brunson
To: spread-users at lists.spread.org
Sent: Friday, February 09, 2007 3:44 PM
Subject: [Spread-users] use a static lib, get rid of .so?


hello spread users,

i casually looked through the mailing list archives, but didn't see any 
questions like this.

i am evaluating spread for potential use in a project.  i wrote a bunch of 
test code on macosx to figure out the api.  so far, so good.  but actual 
full-scale deployment would take place on linux machines, so i tried 
recompiling my code over there.  it builds okay, but when i try to run the 
resultant program, this is the message i get:

  error while loading shared libraries: libspread.so: cannot open shared 
object file:
  No such file or directory

i suppose i could figure out why the program can't find libspread.so, but i 
don't want to do that.  i'd rather build a program that links against 
libspread.a and does not require any shared objects at all.  if we end up 
using spread, it will be deployed on hundreds of linux machines.  i don't 
want to have to install libraries on all those machines.  that's how i 
*thought* i'd built the program, but apparently not.  i just used -lspread 
on the link line, and there is a libspread.a available, so i figured that's 
what it would link against.

i built spread 4.0.0 from source and installed it on a suse linux box 
myself.  can anybody tell me how to either a) build it only as a .a lib, 
rather than a .so lib, or b) how to link my program so that it doesn't 
require the .so?

thanks,
allen