Re: [Chicken-users] Re: wish-list

[Iruatã Souza]

On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Burton Samograd <address@hidden> wrote:
> Felix <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> From: Burton Samograd <address@hidden>
>> Subject: [Chicken-users] Re: wish-list
>> Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 09:06:52 -0600
>>
>>> Felix <address@hidden> writes:
>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 3:37 PM, Felix
>>>>> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>> * Make it easy to create monoliths with no run-time demands to run on
>>>>> targets without chicken
>>>>
>>>> You can always link statically. Most eggs can be statically linked
>>>> (those that don't can in most cases be converted). Do you have a specific
>>>> example?
>>>
>>> It doesn't work if you're using the OpenGL egg, or at least it didn't
>>> when I tried.
>>
>> Can you describe this in more detail?
>
> I had a smallish program that used the OpenGL and GLUT eggs, and when
> compiling statically (csc -static glut.scm) it did produce a static
> binary with no problems, but running it gave an error 'Not able to
> load gl egg' (paraphrased, I'm not at my home workstation right now so I
> can't do it manually).
>
> I'm assuming that because I don't have a static libGL.a that it is
> unable to statically link with it and that the static binaries are not
> able to dynamically load external libraries.  I might be wrong though.
>
> It should be easy to reproduce; just use the example glut program that
> comes with the egg and compile with -static.   This was on a Ubuntu
> 10.10 system with the latest git version tag as of about a week ago.
>
> --
> Burton Samograd
>
>

i've had the same problems here. maybe compiling a static libGL would
do, but i'm not in position to do that right now.

iru