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Bug 625

Summary: SDL_STATIC_LIBS should include EXTRA_LDFLAGS
Product: SDL Reporter: Gregory Smith <wolfy>
Component: buildAssignee: Ryan C. Gordon <icculus>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Severity: normal    
Priority: P2 CC: icculus
Version: 1.2.13Keywords: target-1.2.14
Hardware: x86   
OS: Windows (All)   
Attachments: win-static-libs.diff

Description Gregory Smith 2008-09-13 10:09:26 UTC 
I seem to need to add EXTRA_LDFLAGS to SDL_STATIC_LIBS to get programs to compile with my --disable-shared SDL build in mingw32.
Comment 1 Gregory Smith 2008-09-13 10:10:49 UTC 
Created attachment 277 [details]
win-static-libs.diff

This patch allows me to build programs with --disable-shared using mingw. It might be appropriate to have EXTRA_LDFLAGS always be in SDL_STATIC_LIBS, but I'm not sure so I only put it in for win32) in this patch.
Comment 2 Ryan C. Gordon 2009-09-13 16:33:24 UTC 
Tagging this bug with "target-1.2.14" so we can try to resolve it for SDL 1.2.14.

Please note that we may choose to resolve it as WONTFIX. This tag is largely so we have a comprehensive wishlist of bugs to examine for 1.2.14 (and so we can close bugs that we'll never fix, rather than have them live forever in Bugzilla).

--ryan.
Comment 3 Sam Lantinga 2009-09-26 22:35:59 UTC 
Static linking isn't recommended, as it violates the LGPL if you're not creating an open source application.
Comment 4 Gregory Smith 2009-09-27 13:25:45 UTC 
May I suggest removing --static-libs from sdl-config, then? In my opinion, it should either list the correct libraries, or not be a valid option. FWIW I'm statically linking with a GPL application.
Comment 5 Ryan C. Gordon 2009-09-27 22:03:16 UTC 
Actually, I'm adding this to my bug list to apply this patch.

(discussed with Sam outside of Bugzilla, got his blessing.)

--ryan.
Comment 6 Ryan C. Gordon 2009-09-28 13:30:46 UTC 
It looks like we already fixed this in the default case (svn revision #3511, for Bug #531), so we don't need a win32-specific case now. So this will be fixed for 1.2.14 anyhow.

--ryan.