Need a static version of GNUCash

[Geert Janssens]

It's more complicated than that.

Apart from the external dependencies being dynamically loaded, gnucash itself is also written in a modular way. These modules are runtime searched and loaded using a self written module management system. If you want to build a static version of gnucash you'd have to replace this module system as well.

Regards,
Geert

Buddha Buck <blaisepascal at gmail.com> schreef op 12 mei 2017 16:27:52 CEST:
>I think it is *possible* to make a static version of GnuCash, but it is
>impractical.
>
>From the GnuCash side, it would involve modifying the build engine's
>calls
>to the compilers and linkers to build and link statically instead of
>dynamically. The problem is that when it tries to link against, say
>libgtk2.a, instead of libgtk2.so, it'll fail, because it's highly
>unlikely
>that the static libgtk2.a exists on your system. Insert into that
>statement
>each library that GnuCash actually uses.
>
>You would have to build static versions of all the dependencies of
>GnuCash,
>and their dependencies, etc. There may even be some dependencies which,
>for
>other reasons, cannot be built statically, and then the whole process
>would
>fail.
>
>On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 7:56 AM Mike or Penny Novack <
>stepbystepfarm at dialup4less.com> wrote:
>
>> On 5/12/2017 6:49 AM, John Ralls wrote:
>> >> On May 11, 2017, at 7:37 PM, parabolic quadrate
><aotaspace at niue.nu>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi everybody
>> >> I need to have a pure static version of GNUCash (64bit Linux)
>> Why?  << explain your need >>
>>
>> As John told you, gnucash uses loadable modules.
>>
>> Back in my working days, the systems I maintained had some very large
>> static modules (gigantic by the experience of most programmers here).
>> One of the things I did over those years is to make all of those
>> "pseudo-static" << the first time a module was needed, dynamic call
>but
>> then the address where loaded to saved, and subsequent calls static
>to
>> that address; assembler stuff.
>> That meant just as fast running as if static calls BUT a module could
>be
>> changed without needing to link-edit the entire program. Until all
>but a
>> reserved amount of memory left and then any additional modules called
>> dynamic. >>
>>
>> There should be need for those sort of tricks now. Our little
>computers
>> are faster than the big mainframes of several decades ago.
>>
>> Michael D Novack
>>
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