i686-apple-darwin10 to i386-pc-linux-gnu, ld invoked with gnu options

[Yann E. MORIN]

Titus, Andrea, All,

On Sunday 26 June 2011 15:21:04 Titus von Boxberg wrote:
> Am 26.06.2011 um 14:26 schrieb Andrea Franceschini:
> > To the best of my knowledge, Apple's ld supports -static and -dynamic.
> > Man page for ld states that
> > 
> >     -dynamic    The default.  Implied by -dylib, -bundle, or -execute
> >     -static     Produces a mach-o file that does not use the dyld.
> > Only used building the kernel.
> > 
> > though trying to compile a sample hello world results in a not working
> > executable (segfaults) even if file reports it being a "Mach-O 64-bit
> > executable x86_64". So I'm not sure it's an option.
> 
> No, it's not. You simply cannot produce working statically linked
> binaries on MacOS. The quote "Only used building the kernel" is true.
> And (quoting from the Developer Documentation) there is no way to tell ld to
> prefer a single static library instead of a single dylib of the same name
> also present in the search path.
> That means that there is no equivalent to the ELF command line in question
> ... -Bstatic -lstdc++ -Bdynamic ...
> that links (in this example) libstdc++ statically while the rest is 
> linked dynamically.

OK, then static linking should not be used when on MacOS-X. Period.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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