Re: [Chicken-users] Mac OS X static library names

[Kon Lovett]

On May 14, 2007, at 10:56 AM, Shawn W. wrote:

> On May 14, 2007, at 10:24 AM, Brandon Van Every wrote:
> > On 5/14/07, Peter Keller <address@hidden> wrote: On Mon, May  
> > 14, 2007 at 11:55:31AM -0400, Brandon Van Every wrote:
> > > Any static linking horror stories out there?
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> I CAN'T make statically linked C programs on OS X using the  
> compiler supplied with Xcode 2.mumble. It's missing a static crt0.o  
> (There is a crt1.o in /usr/lib. I've never bothered fighting to get  
> gcc to use that instead.)

Yeah, Apple doesn't support static linking of system libraries, since  
10.2 I think.

> > Ok Mac OS X users, what say you?  Should we tie your hands for  
> > your own good, or give you the freedom to cut off your own fingers?
>
> I don't care about static linking. What would be nice is an OS X  
> framework for the chicken runtime. It'd be a lot easier to  
> distribute to people who want to run a program written in chicken  
> without having to install the full thing (Compiler, interpreter,  
> runtime libraries, etc.). Universal binary support to go along with  
> that would be nice too. The latter is easy to do. (Add '-arch i386 - 
> arch ppc' to the cflags used by the chicken compiler, and I /think/  
> everything will work automagically. I'll test that.)

Yes, /Library/Frameworks/Chicken.framework would be nice.

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