Robert Kern wrote:
Christopher Fonnesbeck wrote:
Is there any way to specify static linking to particular libraries when building installers with distutils or setuptools? I want to be able to include the shared libraries that I am linking to in my builds. I did not see any info on this in the docs.
Not really, no. In many cases (e.g., GNU ld), there's simply no way to tell the linker that you prefer static libraries to shared libraries when you are building a shared library like a Python extension. You simply have to make sure that the static libraries are found first.
I believe this is wrong. The (GNU ld) man pages mention '-Bdynamic' and '-Bstatic' as a means to instruct the linker to link to a particular library dynamically or statically. (To only link statically to libbar.a you could write e.g. ... -lfoo -Bstatic -lbar -Bdynamic -lbaz etc.) However, the way distutils is written makes it practically impossible to control such behavior without completely rewriting the whole 'build_ext' command. Hopefully setuptools can manage this better. Regards, Stefan