Re: static and shared libraries, stand-alone GNUstep applications

[Adam Fedor]

On Friday, February 27, 2004, at 12:49 PM, M. Grabert wrote:
> - Can a static GNUstep application be run without a full (static) 
> GNUstep
>   installation on the machine?
>
> - IE. does a static GNUstep app use default values if it doesn't find 
> the
>   Ressources in the /usr/local/GNUstep directory? Or are there some 
> files
>   that *NEED* to be there?
I don't know - it might be possible but I've never tried it. There are 
things like character sets,  time zones, and languages that GNUstep 
loads in and may or may not continue on gracefully if they aren't found.

> - Is is neccessary that the GNUSTEP* environment variables are set to
>   run the application?
It should not be necessary.

> - AFAIK it is not possible to create a statically linked libback_,
>   since it uses (shared) bundles (ie. x11 or art).
>   Are there any plans to support a statically compiled backend?

When configuring gnustep-make, use:

./configure --disable-backend-bundle

Although now-days, there are other bundles that the gui uses and may 
not be able to live without.  It's something you'll probably just have 
to experiment with.