On 8/10/07 1:16 PM, Bill Hoffman said: >>>> both supported, I build both. On the Mac, where static libraries are >>>> officially depreciated, I don't. There's an OPTION to build them if >>>> you really really want to scrounge around with that. And if you want >>>> >>> I haven't heard this, albeit I don't do much Mac development. Do you >have any >>> references on this. A project I'm working on wants to build static >libraries to >>> help in the distribution: "Here's your binary, now RUN!". >>> >> >> http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2001/qa1118.html >> >I am not sure this means static libraries are deprecated. It just >means that completely static >executables are not recommended. They want you to use the dynamic run >time libraries. >This is very similar to the MS compiler. However, your application can >use lots of static >libraries that contain your code.
Precisely. Just look in /usr/lib/, Mac OS X ships with all kinds of .a (ie static) libraries. -- ____________________________________________________________ Sean McBride, B. Eng [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rogue Research www.rogue-research.com Mac Software Developer Montréal, Québec, Canada _______________________________________________ CMake mailing list CMake@cmake.org http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake
