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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: static linking
Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2014 08:21:01 +0100
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agent@drrob1.com writes:

> Hi.  I have written a small ada  pgm under ubuntu.  This program is
> working.  But it only works on computers that I have already installed
> gnat.  I am assuming that this is due to dynamic linking to a runtime
> library for ada.
>
> Is there a way to statically link an ada program so I do not have this
> issue?

   $ gnatbind --help
   ...
     -static   Link against a static GNAT run time
     -shared   Link against a shared GNAT run time
   ...

   $ gnatmake foo.adb -bargs -static

(I guess -shared is default on your system; on Mac OS X it appears the
default is -static).