Re: Statically link libwinpthread-1.dll in gdbserver

[Claude Robitaille <claude-robitaille@hotmail.com>]

No. I did not try.

But, if I do this on the top level configure command line, wouldn't then everything be statically linked? Is it possible to pass this falg only to the gdbserver configure command?
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From: Pedro Alves <pedro@palves.net>
Sent: May 2, 2022 9:27 AM
To: Claude Robitaille <claude-robitaille@hotmail.com>; gdb@sourceware.org <gdb@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: Statically link libwinpthread-1.dll in gdbserver

On 2022-05-02 13:11, Claude Robitaille via Gdb wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to produce a statically linked gdbserver (except the distribution DLL from Windows). I have everything in except for libwinpthread-1.dll. I
> guess gdbserver should be linked with libwinpthread.a but how to tell the build system to do so?
>
> I am using this command line to configure:
> ../binutils-gdb/configure --enable-static --with-static-standard-libraries --disable-gdb --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32
>
> and then followed by
> make
>
> Using objdump, I see that the following DLL are needed by the binary
> KERNEL32.dll
> msvcrt.dll
> libwinpthread-1.dll
> USER32.dll
> WS2_32.dll
>
> As you can see from the command line, I am using mingw-w64. I am using the stock Ubuntu 20.04 package for it, which includes the following library files for pthread
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 388692 Nov 15  2019 libpthread.a
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  88994 Nov 15  2019 libpthread.dll.a
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 621013 Nov 15  2019 libwinpthread-1.dll
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 388692 Nov 15  2019 libwinpthread.a
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  88994 Nov 15  2019 libwinpthread.dll.a
>
>

Have you tried passing "-static" in CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS?