static link vs shared object

[Norm Samuelson <nh...@llnl.gov>]

We have been using Xerces to parse the input parameters for a large physics 
simulation code.  It is working pretty well.  I want to thank all the 
developers of Xerces for a very nice piece of work.

We currently have only one big complaint about Xerces.  It builds as a 
shared object.  That is somewhat painful now for our users, who must set 
LD_LIBRARY_PATH when they run our code, but it will become much more of a 
pain soon, when the Blue Gene Light machine appears, as it is not expected 
to support shared objects.

I know that this has come up before, but adding the ability to build a 
static library is getting to be a higher priority for us.

I would like to hear from anyone who has built a static Xerces library on 
more than one unix/linux platform.


- Norm -

Norman H. Samuelson                         nhs@llnl.gov
Lawrence Livermore National Lab      925-422-0661
P.O. Box 808, L-98
Livermore, CA 94551  


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