[Boost-users] Can't statically link demo program with Boost.Serialization 1.33

From: Demos Rali (demorali_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-03-01 19:21:50

Hello,

I am having difficulties statically compiling the demo program at
http://www.boost.org/libs/serialization/example/demo.cpp
on Linux (Linux  2.6.15-1.1831_FC4 #1 SMP Tue Feb 7 13:37:59 EST 2006 
x86_64 GNU/Linux) with gcc version 4.0.2 20051125.

When I try:
g++ -o demo -I /path/boost/ -L /path/boost/ -lboost_serialization demo.cpp

it works fine, but I get a program which needs dynamic versions of the 
serialization library.

However, I would like to compile against the static versions of 
the Boost.Serialization library.

If I try
g++ -static -o demo -I /path/boost/ -L /path/boost/ -lboost_serialization demo.cpp

the linker complains of a lot of undefined references, like

/tmp/ccFAJsqB.o(.gnu.linkonce.r._ZTIN5boost13serialization16void_cast_detail21void_caster_primitiveIK20bus_stop_destinationK8bus_stopEE[typeinfo 
for 
boost::serialization::void_cast_detail::void_caster_primitive<bus_stop_destination 
const, bus_stop const>]+0x10): undefined reference to `typeinfo for 
boost::serialization::void_cast_detail::void_caster'
...

I have no difficulties when statically linking against other boost 
libraries. I built the librairies with gcc, with no exotic options.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks a lot.

Fabrizio