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| author | Pierre Ossman <ossman@cendio.se> | 2014-10-17 13:59:35 +0200 |
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| committer | Pierre Ossman <ossman@cendio.se> | 2014-10-17 13:59:35 +0200 |
| commit | f95272de303373b3d2d55e001a0dac9a8d800407 (patch) | |
| tree | c9e17d16c2544da212240691726aac2b91adc1e9 /BUILDING.txt | |
| parent | b27c1b240e45ceb02f8587e72b650bbeededf546 (diff) | |
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Extend "static" build option
Try to link as much as possible statically in an effort to produce
binaries that can be run everywhere.
Diffstat (limited to 'BUILDING.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | BUILDING.txt | 13 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/BUILDING.txt b/BUILDING.txt index 71d26b65..8f686cc3 100644 --- a/BUILDING.txt +++ b/BUILDING.txt @@ -252,16 +252,21 @@ Debug Build Add "-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug" to the CMake command line. -Self-Contained GCC Build ------------------------- +Portable (semi-static) Build +---------------------------- -If TigerVNC is built using GCC (including MinGW), then it may depend on the -libgcc or libstdc++ dynamic libraries. To eliminate this dependency, add +TigerVNC can under favourble circumstances be built in a way that allows +the resulting binaries to run on any system without having to also install +all the dynamic libraries it depends on. Enable this mode by adding: -DBUILD_STATIC=1 to the CMake command line. +Note that the method used to achieve this is very fragile and it may be +necessary to tweak cmake/StaticBuild.cmake to make things work on your +specific system. + ===================== Building Java Support |