[Distutils] static linking in distutils/setuptools?

[Bob Ippolito]

On Jan 26, 2006, at 3:29 PM, Robert Kern wrote:

> Stefan Seefeld wrote:
>> Robert Kern wrote:
>
>>> 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.)
>
> Ah, yes, you are correct. Unfortunately, OS X's ld does not have  
> these options
> (and is not GNU; I am an idiot).

What I normally do is specify the full path to the library in  
extra_link_args, and remove it from the libraries list.

-bob