-static and dmd

[Jonathan M Davis]

Jonathan M Davis wrote:

> Mike Parker wrote:
> 
>> Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>>> With gcc, you can pass it the -static flag and it will statically link
>>> everything. Normally, with dmd (on linux at least), it dynamically links
>>> all of the C/C++ libraries that it uses. So, if I run ldd (well, ldd32
>>> technically) on one of my programs I get:
>>> 
>>>         linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xf7794000)
>>>         libpthread.so.0 => /lib32/libpthread.so.0 (0xf7756000)
>>>         libm.so.6 => /lib32/libm.so.6 (0xf7730000)
>>>         libc.so.6 => /lib32/libc.so.6 (0xf75ea000)
>>>         /lib32/ld-linux.so.2 (0xf7795000)
>>> 
>>> If it were gcc and -static had been used, you'd get
>>> 
>>>         not a dynamic executable
>>> 
>>> I'd like to be able to do the equivalent of -static with dmd so that my
>>> dmd- generated binaries don't have to link against any of the C/C++
>>> libraries on my system. Is there a way to do that? I can't see any.
>>> Certainly, none of dmd's options appear to give that kind of
>>> functionality. So, if there is a way to do it, I'd like to know how.
>>> Does anyone here know how?
>>> 
>>> - Jonathan M Davis
>> 
>> Did you try passing -L-static to DMD?
> 
> Ah, thanks. Unfortunately, it doesn't work on my system at the moment. I
> get
> 
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgcc_s
> 
> However, that's probably more of an issue with my system missing stuff
> than there being a problem with dmd. It probably has to do with how horrid
> arch linux is with multilib. Still, it looks like I'm closer than I was.
> Thanks.
> 
> - Jonathan M Davis

Well, it's not an arch linux issue. My OpenSuSE box has the same problem. 
It's like it's looking for gcc_s.a, but there's only a gcc_s.so. C++ 
programs don't have this problem, though (at least none that I've tried), so 
I don't know what D's doing which messes it up.

- Jonathan M Davis