[Help-gnutls] Re: statically linked libgnutls doesn't pull in zlib

[Simon Josefsson]

"kyle cronan" <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi everyone,
>
> This is really pretty minor, but when I tried to link my application
> statically I got some undefined symbols, such as deflate, that are
> part of zlib.  So I had to add this to my application's dependencies
> even though I don't use zlib directly.
>
> I see that in the libgnutls.la file, it has
>
> dependency_libs=' -L/usr/lib -lz /usr/lib/libgcrypt.la -lnsl -lgpg-error   '
>
> So I don't know why those symbols don't end up in libgnutls.a.  I just
> thought I'd post in case somebody knows an easy fix.

Hi!  Looking at the libgnutls.a installed on my system, it doesn't
have libz symbols either:

address@hidden:~/src/gnutls$ nm -B ~/lib/libgnutls.a |grep deflate
         U deflate
         U deflateEnd
         U deflateInit2_
address@hidden:~/src/gnutls$

Isn't the normal procedure that, if you use static linking, you have
to link directly to a library, and all its dependencies?

I think that if you use libtool to link your static application, it
should have taken care of this.

/Simon