Re: libm.a, libc.a

[Katherine Holcomb <kah3f@eservices.virginia.edu>]

You really should post questions like this to comp.lang.fortran since 
this is a list for developers of the compiler and is not a general user 
support list.  There may be SUSE users in the more general Google group, 
and this question isn't related to gfortran, but to the packaging system 
of a particular distribution of the operating system.  I personally do 
not know anything about SUSE but on Fedora the additional rpm required 
is glibc-static (the particular static libraries you need are C 
libraries, not Fortran libraries).

Static binaries are pretty common for Windows but in the Linux community 
it's more typical to share source than binaries, which is probably why 
glibc-static or equivalent isn't installed by default.  Ultimately it 
comes down to the choices made by the distributor of the OS.

On 11/05/2015 01:06 PM, Sewell, Granville wrote:
> I'm trying to compile a program using GFortran (on SUSE Linux) so that it will run on systems that do not have GFortran installed, when I try
>      gfortran -static program.f
>
> I get that ld can't find -lm and -lc, apparently I need libc.a and libm.a (I have only the dynamic libraries libc.so and libm.so).   I was told that the usual distributions of GFortran do not includes these static libraries.   So
>   1) where can I find them (I tried Googling several things, can't actually find downloadable libraries)
>   2) is there another way to compile using gfortran to produce an execuable that will run anywhere?   Seems like this would be a common need, why would that not be possible using usual distributions of GFortran.  I had no trouble with the old g77 -static, apparently that did include libm.a and libc.a
>
> Thanks,
>
> Granville Sewell


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