[Distutils] static linking in distutils/setuptools?

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 05:05 PM 1/26/2006 -0500, Stefan Seefeld wrote:
>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.

Probably not, as I'm not rewriting build_ext, just wrapping it.

You might try kludging your library names to be 'foo -Bstatic', 'bar 
-Bdynamic', etc., if you're on the right platform/compiler.