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

[Felix]

From: Burton Samograd <address@hidden>
Subject: [Chicken-users] Re: wish-list
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 09:03:47 -0600

> 
> 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).  

A statically compiled executable can not load extensions, so compiling
it statically will a) require extensions that are built for static use and
b) need the proper options to link with the statically compiled code
for those (specially built) extensions. The latter is somewhat clunky,
I admit.


cheers,
felix