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Andrew Johnson <[email protected]> · Thu, 21 Jul 2011 14:21:39 -0500

Hi David,

On 2011-07-21 Eric Norum wrote:
> The latter -- there's no way to static link (well, no *easy* way) on OS X.
> 
> On Jul 21, 2011, at 11:25 AM, David Dudley wrote:
> > I seem to have discovered a problem on a MAC darwin-x86 where I can’t
> > static link programs.
> >
> > Whenever I try to set STATIC_BUILD=YES in the CONFIG_SITE file, and do a
> > clean rebuild, it fails when it’s trying to link antelope, saying that it
> > can’t find the crt0.0 library.

That's the C run-time library, which Apple only provide as a dynamically-
linked library.

You should however be able to set SHARED_LIBRARIES=NO instead, and in your 
Base top directory do a 'make distclean' to remove all of the old .dylib files 
before you rebuild Base again.  That will statically link in all of the EPICS 
libraries into the binaries it builds, but will still dynamically link the 
system libraries and thus overcome the above problem.

HTH,

- Andrew
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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

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