Linux: How to statically link against system libs?

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Nick Sabalausky" <a at a.a> wrote in message 
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> "Nick Sabalausky" <a at a.a> wrote in message 
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>> I downloaded 4.2 (picked pretty much at random), installed it in 
>> VirtualBox, compiled a trivial test C program in the included GCC, 
>> uploaded that to the server, and it worked! :)
>>
>
> Actually, I did have to remove the HTTP status code output from my little 
> hello world cgi test in forder for Apache to not throw up a 500. That kind 
> of surprised me, actually. But maybe it just means it's been far too long 
> since I've done CGI... *shrug*
>

If anyone's curious, I did get a basic D cgi app to work, too (ie, Compiling 
on CentOS 4.2 in a VM and uploading to my shared host server), but I had to:

1. Recompile DMD (Because the precompiled DMD would immediately quit with a 
"Floating point exception" message, even if called with zero args).

2. Remove "-L--no-warn-search-mismatch" (Because otherwise, when it tried to 
link, the GCC in CentOS 4.2 would error out and complain that wasn't a valid 
switch.)

As a little bonus, the C test app I compiled in the CentOS 4.2 VM also ran 
fine on my physical Kubuntu 10.04 box. Although the D one segfaulted. No big 
deal deal though, it's easy enough to compile on that box.

The only problem I'm having now (aside from the fact that I haven't 
attempted to deal with the other shared host server yet - the debian one 
from the horrible ipower company), is that CentOS 4.2 (or maybe it's just 
KDE) runs so slow in a VM that it frequently doesn't recognize when I let go 
of a key and so then it goes off doing crazy shit. :/  Or it'll swap my key 
presses if I type too fast. At one point I had a hell of a time just getting 
it to let me type in "cd dmd" correctly. (I don't think it's entirely 
because of my computer though. XP runs just fine in a VM for me, even with 
only 192MB RAM allocated to it instead of the 512MB given to CentOS 4.2) So 
I'm going to try putting CentOS 4.9 in a VM and replacing KDE with XFCE. And 
I'll also have VirtualBox enable 3D accel and see if maybe then the 
"VirtualBox Guest Additions" package will be able to use OpenGL.