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

[John Gehman]

Thanks so much Joakim,

> What I did was the following:
>
> 1. Create a gsl/lib-static directory containing *only* the static
>    versions of the libraries.
>
> 2. When compiling (linking) a gave this path with the -L option to
>    gcc.
>
> This was on unix, and maybe your problems are platform spesific. I
> know *nothing* about Mac OS X.

For the record, to compile an executable with g++ using static versions 
of the gsl library/libraries on OS X, I did a mkdir gsl-static in 
/usr/local/lib/ and made symbolic links to libgsl.a and libgslcblas.a 
in the /usr/local/lib directory as suggested, and only found the 
following to work, creating an executable approximately 3x larger than 
the dynamically linked gsl version:
g++ -o myprogram mycode.c  /usr/local/lib/gsl-static/libgsl.a 
/usr/local/lib/gsl-static/libgslcblas.a

--using -L to specify this directory didn't work--it still used the 
dynamic libraries. The resulting executable works on several other 
machines.

Thanks again Joakim,
John