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Bug 3416

Summary: configure --enable-shared=no does not work
Product: SDL_ttf Reporter: Intellectual Kitty <IntellectualKitty>
Component: miscAssignee: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Severity: minor    
Priority: P2 CC: hughmcl
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Other   

Description Intellectual Kitty 2016-08-26 21:18:27 UTC 
Using the --enable-shared=no with configure still tries to build with shared libraries.  (Note that the --enable-shared=no option DOES work with SDL, SDL_image, and SDL_net, which are all the other projects that I have built.)

The following is output from running make after running configure with --enable-shared=no.  Note that I have the static version of the libpng16 library installed under /usr/local/lib/ but not the shared version.

/bin/sh ./libtool  --tag=CC   --mode=link gcc  -g -O2 -I/usr/local/include/freetype2 -I/usr/local/include/SDL2 -D_THREAD_SAFE -DHAVE_OPENGL   -o showfont showfont.o libSDL2_ttf.la -L/usr/local/lib -lfreetype -L/usr/local/lib -lSDL2 -lm -liconv -Wl,-framework,ForceFeedback -lobjc -Wl,-framework,CoreVideo -Wl,-framework,Cocoa -Wl,-framework,Carbon -Wl,-framework,IOKit -Wl,-framework,CoreAudio -Wl,-framework,AudioToolbox -Wl,-framework,AudioUnit
libtool: link: gcc -g -O2 -I/usr/local/include/freetype2 -I/usr/local/include/SDL2 -D_THREAD_SAFE -DHAVE_OPENGL -o showfont showfont.o -Wl,-framework -Wl,ForceFeedback -Wl,-framework -Wl,CoreVideo -Wl,-framework -Wl,Cocoa -Wl,-framework -Wl,Carbon -Wl,-framework -Wl,IOKit -Wl,-framework -Wl,CoreAudio -Wl,-framework -Wl,AudioToolbox -Wl,-framework -Wl,AudioUnit  ./.libs/libSDL2_ttf.a -L/usr/local/lib /usr/local/lib/libfreetype.a -lbz2 /usr/local/lib/libpng16.dylib -lz /usr/local/lib/libSDL2.a -lm -liconv -lobjc
clang: error: no such file or directory: '/usr/local/lib/libpng16.dylib'
Comment 1 Hugh McLenaghan 2020-03-13 21:30:42 UTC 
I'm having a similar issue to this one now.  Using SDL_ttf version 2.0.15.

My application is set to use Static Libraries, everything compiles fine.   When I try to run it I get an exception.  If I copy the SDL2_ttf.dll to the runtime directory, then the program works.  This means that somehow it's still needing the dynamic library even although it's supposed to be compiled as static.
Comment 2 Hugh McLenaghan 2020-03-13 21:31:33 UTC 
PS, i'm building a Windows .exe file and using Visual Studio 2019, with the /MT option.