Static executables

Tue Jan 31 13:38:00 GMT 2006

Andrzej Bialecki writes:
 > David Daney wrote:
 > > Tom Tromey wrote:
 > >> It would be helpful if someone wrote a page for the gcc wiki about
 > >> static linking.
 > >
 > > Like this:?
 > >
 > > http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/Statically%20linking%20libgcj
 > >
 > 
 > # this depends on ncurses, but we're not linking now
 > gcj -c Toolkit.c -fjni -findirect-dispatch -o Toolkit.o
 > 
 > gcj -c charva.jar -fjni -findirect-dispatch -o charva.o
This looks wrong. The "Statically linking libgcj" page doesn't
recommend indirect dispatch, and it won't work. If you want to link
statically you must use the C++ ABI, not indirect dispatch.
As for JNI, as far as I'm aware it requires dynamic loading.
Andrew.