[Help-gsl] compile with static GSL(1.4) libraries: G++(3.3) OS X(10.3.5)

[John Gehman]

Hello All,

I'm having some problems sorting out compiling problems: I tried to 
provide my boss with an executable (which uses GSL) that I compiled on 
my OS X (10.3.5) iBook (via g++ -o myprogram -lgsl -lgslcblas mycode.c, 
and works fine on my machine); she also has a recent iBook, although 
I'm not certain it's the same OS X version/update. The error she gets 
trying to run it says something to the effect of "can't find 
libgsl.o.dylib ..." I presume this means that I need to include static 
versions of the gsl libraries when compiling, and I can't work out how.

I've tried:
--including the -static flag {and get 
"/var/tmp//ccetJK2B.s:1328:FATAL:incompatible feature used: directive 
.non_lazy_symbol_pointer (must specify "-dynamic" to be used)" }
--recompiling my gsl-1.4 with "./configure --disable-shared" , but the 
executables are exactly the same size following compiling. The -static 
flag does the same thing as before.
--including the explicit libgsl.a and libgslcblas.a paths as just more 
source code when compiling, and I get ld: Undefined symbols: then a 
list of every gsl function and construct I use.
--including the explicit  libgsl.la and libgslcblas.la paths as well 
and get ld: /usr/local/lib/libgsl.la bad magic number (not a Mach-O 
file) (and same for libgslcblas).
--including -static-libgcc (no effect)

Obviously I'm flailing, trying an incoherent smattering of all the 
little snippets I can find that appear to address the issue. Has 
anybody compiled code on their machine and ran it elsewhere (where gsl 
was not loaded)? How?

Thank You!