Building Libpurple Statically

[Nicholas Peshek]

I'm assuming he's making an iPhone app.

On Jul 1, 2009, at 9:14 PM, "Evan Schoenberg, M.D." <evan at adium.im>  
wrote:

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> On Jul 1, 2009, at 8:52 PM, Kevin Hughes wrote:
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>> I am trying to build libpurple statically for use in a programming  
>> project of mine, and have run into some complications.  I know  
>> Adium used to build libpurple statically, but moved away from that  
>> to building dynamically.  What was the reason for this change?   
>> What sort of issues were you having with building statically?
>>
>> I only need the yahoo protocol and the ssl plugins for my project;  
>> would this simplify the issues you had?
>
> We built statically by creating an xcode project with all the files  
> needed, along with all the dependencies as targets linked  
> statically.  The config.h file for each target was generated once,  
> copied in, and then modified to have appropriate platform-specific  
> #ifdef sections (PPC vs. Intel).
>
> We moved away from this because while it worked fine once it worked,  
> it fell like a house of wet cards when trying to upgrade any  
> dependency or libpurple itself, as libraries expect their  
> autoconfigure to work, and we were literally short-circuiting it.
>
> There might be a better way than building statically - what are you  
> trying to accomplish?
>
> Cheers,
> Evan
>