[Numpy-discussion] building numpy with atlas on ubuntu edgy

[David Cournapeau]

Robert Kern wrote:
> Charles R Harris wrote:
>
>   
>> I don't know which is best, although I suspect the statically linked
>> version will be larger. It might seem that just pulling in the gemm
>> routines wouldn't add much, but they pull in lots of supporting
>> routines. To get numpy to link statically you will also probably need to
>> have a directory that contains only the *.a versions because the linker
>> will default to the *.so if they are present; i don't think there is a
>> way to specify the -static flag to the gcc compiler. Maybe someone else
>> knows how to do that.
>>     
>
> Not really. Since you are *making* a shared library, the flags are already set
> to *look up* shared libraries. I do not believe they are overridable, much to my
> frequent vexation.
>   
I think there is a way, but not trivial. I had to do all kind of tricks 
to use fftw in mex (matlab extension written in C, practically 
dynamically loaded .so inside matlab), and linking statically some 
libraries was one of them. If you still need it (linking some libraries 
statically, other dynamically, to build a .so), I can try to dig in my 
matlab scripts (unused for some time thanks to scipy :) )

cheers,

David