2011/4/5 Dmitry Katsubo > Dear CygWin users / developers! > > While trying to link statically my application against GraphicsMagick
why not dynamic ? > under CygWin, but I suffer from few minor problems during linking. > > To discover the library list, needed for static linking, I use > "GraphicsMagick++-config --libs": > >> configure:7259: g++ -o conftest.exe -g -O2 -I/usr/include/GraphicsMagick >> -L/usr/lib -static-libgcc -Wl,-static conftest.cpp -lGraphicsMagick >> -lGraphicsMagick++ -lGraphicsMagick++ -lGraphicsMagick -ljbig -llcms -ltiff >> -lfreetype -ljasper -ljpeg -lpng -lwmflite -lXext -lSM -lICE -lX11 -lbz2 >> -lxml2 -lz -lgdi32 -lm -lpthread -lltdl -lm >&5 >> /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/4.3.4/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld: cannot >> find -lxml2 >> /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/4.3.4/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld: cannot >> find -lpng > > * The package libxml2-devel is installed, but in my opinion is missing > the libxml2.a file: > > $ ll /lib/libxml* > 1122076 May 12 2010 /lib/libxml2.dll.a > 927 May 12 2010 /lib/libxml2.la it seems that libxml2-devel package is missing the static option. > > * The package libpng12-devel is installed, but there is no symlink > libpng.a -> libpng12.a. So I think GraphicsMagick should be linked > either against libpng12 or libpng14: > GraphicsMagick is linked versus libpng14 $ cygcheck cygGraphicsMagick-3.dll |grep png E:\cygwin2\bin\cygpng14-14.dll > $ ll /lib/libpng* > 294592 Aug 8 2010 /lib/libpng12.a > 217944 Aug 8 2010 /lib/libpng12.dll.a $ cygcheck -l libpng14-devel |grep png\.a /usr/lib/libpng.a > > Does it sound reasonable? If yes, what is the best way to report these > two bugs? > > Additional info: > libxml2-devel 2.7.7-1 > libpng12-devel 1.2.44-1 > libGraphicsMagick-devel 1.3.12-2 > gcc4-g++ 4.3.4-4 one is a missing functionality and there other is not a bug ;-) > > -- > With best regards, > Dmitry > Regards Marco -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple