Re: [Boost-users] Can't statically link demo program withBoost.Serialization 1.33

From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-03-02 00:38:22

I'm not an expert in gcc command line switches.  But it seems odd
to me that you don't have to specify the full library name with the
-L switch.  There are several verasions of the library built and I
don't see how the proper one can be select without explicitly
specifying it.  gcc doesn't implemant autolink as far as I know.

Robert Ramey

Demos Rali wrote:
> 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