2010/2/18 Christopher Barker <Chris.Barker@noaa.gov>:
Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote:
If it is not compiled with -fPIC, you can't statically link it into any shared library, it has to be statically linked into the final executable (so the standard /usr/bin/python will never work).
Shows you what I (don't) know!
The joys of closed-source software!
On a similar topic -- is it possible to convert a *.so to a static lib? (on OS-X)? I did a bunch a googling a while back, and couldn't figure it out.
I don't think you can. A static library is nothing more than an archive of object files (a Fortran module file is the same BTW), a dynamic library is one big object with every link created. Going from the latter to the former cannot be easilly done. Matthieu -- Information System Engineer, Ph.D. Blog: http://matt.eifelle.com LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/matthieubrucher