Hello,
(My apologies in advance for a FAQ; after working with Xerces for months,
my developers don't have an answer for this, so I thought I'd ask; don't
see an immediate answer on the website, either.)
I manage a cross-platform C++ development project that uses Xerces (and
many other tools like MinGW, Boost, ACE, Qt, etc). Amongst all these
tools, Xerces is the one library for which we have yet to figure out how to
eliminate as an external library file. We have to continually include a
xerces-c_2_5_0.dll file in our binary distributions.
How can we avoid this in the future?
Will Xerces support a static-library link (such that the Xerces module
becomes embedded in our executable(s))?
If a static link, I'm concerned about the resulting size of the executable,
for the xerces-c_2_5_0.dll file is 4.5MB big, while our project's
executable is only 3MB big. Is there a way to static-link only the
portions/modules of the library we need?
Is there any other options besides static linking?
Thanks for any help,
-Matt
