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From: Markus Schoepflin <nospam@no.spam>
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Subject: Static linking
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2009 09:54:00 +0200
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Hello,

up to now (gcc-4.3.x) we have been happily using 'gnatmake ... -largs 
-static' to create statically linked executable. This has stopped working 
with 4.4:

 > touch foo.adb && gnatmake foo -largs -static
gcc-4.4 -c foo.adb
gnatbind -x foo.ali
gnatlink foo.ali -static
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgnat-4.4
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
gnatlink: error when calling /usr/bin/gcc-4.4
gnatmake: *** link failed.

Now I have been told that -static is a binder, not a linker argument, and 
indeed this works:

 > touch foo.adb && gnatmake foo -bargs -static
gcc-4.4 -c foo.adb
gnatbind -static -x foo.ali
gnatlink foo.ali

But this is not a static executable:

 > ldd foo
	linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xb7f9e000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb7e2d000)
	/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7f9f000)

Looking at the manual for the binder I'm told: '-static Link against a 
static GNAT run time.'. OK, so this works as advertised, no dynamic GNAT 
runtime used.

Now what is the correct way to created a static executable? This seems to 
work, but is it correct?

 > touch foo.adb && gnatmake foo -bargs -static -largs -static
gcc-4.4 -c foo.adb
gnatbind -static -x foo.ali
gnatlink foo.ali -static
 > ldd foo
	not a dynamic executable

And why did only passing '-largs -static' work for gcc-3.3.x?

Markus