Re: static linking (Re: [Chicken-users] wish-list

[Felix]

From: Daishi Kato <address@hidden>
Subject: static linking (Re: [Chicken-users] wish-list
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 01:04:27 +0900

> At Wed, 27 Oct 2010 03:12:08 -0400 (EDT),
> Felix wrote:
>> 
>> From: Martin DeMello <address@hidden>
>> Subject: Re: [Chicken-users] wish-list
>> Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 12:11:59 +0530
>> 
>> > On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 3:37 PM, Felix
>> > <address@hidden> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I added a "wish-list" to the wiki to hold stuff that would be nice to
>> >> have. This is of course not meant as a replacement for the
>> >> bug-tracker, but it may be worthwhile to have a place where to put
>> >> more ambitious ideas.
>> >>
>> >>  http://wiki.call-cc.org/wish-list
>> > 
>> > Good stuff! What is the current state of affairs with respect to this one?
>> > 
>> > * 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?
>> 
>> 
>> cheers,
>> felix
> 
> felix, are you sure most eggs can be statically linked?
> I assume it means chicken-install produces *.o files, correct?
> 
> I have the following so installed (I think I'm using all of them),
> and only 3 have objects: numbers-static.o openssl-static.o sendfile-static.o.
> 
> abnf-charlist.so abnf-consumers.so abnf.so base64.so cgi-handler.so 
> condition-utils.so datatype.so defstruct.so environments.so hash-let.so 
> http-client.so iconv.so input-classes.so input-parse.so intarweb.so 
> internet-message.so iset.so json.so lexgen.so locale-builtin.so 
> locale-categories.so locale-components.so locale-current.so locale-posix.so 
> locale-timezone.so locale.so lookup-table-synch.so 
> lookup-table-unsafe-synch.so lookup-table-unsafe.so lookup-table.so 
> mailbox.so matchable.so md5.so message-digest-port.so message-digest.so 
> mime.so miscmacros.so moremacros.so numbers.so numeric-macros.so openssl.so 
> packrat.so record-variants.so sendfile.so setup-api.so setup-download.so 
> simple-directory-handler.so smtp.so spiffy-cookies.so spiffy.so srfi-29.so 
> srfi-4-checks.so srfi-4-errors.so ssax.so ssp-handler.so sxml-transforms.so 
> sxpath-lolevel.so sxpath.so synch.so txpath.so type-checks.so type-errors.so 
> typeclass.so unicode-char-sets.so uri-common.so uri-generic.so 
> utf8-case-map.so utf8-lolevel.so utf8-srfi-13.so utf8-srfi-14.so utf8.so 
> variable-item.so web-scheme-handler.so
> 
> I wish I could link them statically.
> 

Uh - that's a lot. Some of them can be easily converted, some are compile-time
only, but some others are more subtle. Do you need all those in a single 
application?


cheers,
felix