[Wine] wine static

[James Mckenzie]

Leonardo <sombriks at gmail.com> on Aug 8, 2008 9:14 AM (PNT) wrote about [Wine] wine static

>Andrwe, you could try to ask in the devel list, and also start to hack the
>cconfigure.ac wine script.

This is not for the faint of heart to be doing.  The results can be destructive.

>since it's under autotools thing i'm sure that find examples about static
>linking will not be difficult.
>
>i suggest you to ask in wine-devel, but is possible that the ffinal binary
>becomes amazingly large...

I'll agree here.  I work with the OpenOffice.org project and someone actually attempted
to build it statically.  The 150MB program grew to over 1GB in one case. I don't know
what would happen with Wine.  

The real question here is why statically link this program?  It is developed, built 
and testing on many different platforms and Linux/UNIX distributions.  Most, if not
all of these support dynamic linking.

James McKenzie