Want to make standalone program with cmake

Question

My program uses giblib and Imlib2 library and it is built with cmake.

It works perfectly in my computer but not in other's.

I guess the reason is I installed every library what my program needs but other's doesn't.

My goal is making standalone program. (don't need to install any other library addtionally)

What should I add in cmake file?

projectDef.cmake source code

file (GLOB PLATFORM RELATIVE ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}
    X11/[^.]*.cpp
    X11/[^.]*.h
    X11/[^.]*.cmake
    )

SOURCE_GROUP(X11 FILES ${PLATFORM})

add_definitions(
)

set (SOURCES
    ${SOURCES}
    ${PLATFORM}
    )

add_x11_plugin(${PROJECT_NAME} SOURCES)

target_link_libraries(${PROJECT_NAME}
    ${PLUGIN_INTERNAL_DEPS}
    )

include_directories(/usr/include/giblib)
include_directories(/usr/include/X11)

target_link_libraries(MyProject X11)
target_link_libraries(MyProject Imlib2)
target_link_libraries(MyProject giblib)

CMakeList.txt source code

cmake_minimum_required (VERSION 2.6)
set (CMAKE_BACKWARDS_COMPATIBILITY 2.6)
set(BUILD_SHARED_LIBS OFF)
set(CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS "-static")

Project(${PLUGIN_NAME})

file (GLOB GENERAL RELATIVE ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}
    [^.]*.cpp
    [^.]*.h
    [^.]*.cmake
    )

include_directories(${PLUGIN_INCLUDE_DIRS})


SET_SOURCE_FILES_PROPERTIES(
    ${GENERATED}
    PROPERTIES
        GENERATED 1
    )

SOURCE_GROUP(Generated FILES
    ${GENERATED}
    )

SET( SOURCES
    ${GENERAL}
    ${GENERATED}
    )

include_platform()

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3762057/cmake-how-to-produce-binaries-as-static-as-possible ? — , Aug 18 '11 at 06:30

score 5 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 06 '20 at 05:10

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Try starting with this options in your root CMakeLists.txt:

set(BUILD_SHARED_LIBS OFF)
set(CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS "${CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS} -static")

BUILD_SHARED_LIBS is only needed if your project has its own libraries (add_library).

With the -static linker flag, you need static libs for ALL your additional libraries too! One common problem when static linking is to avoid circular dependencies.

edited Mar 06 '20 at 05:10

pooya13

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answered Aug 18 '11 at 06:30

Lars

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After repeat your solution, size of result .so file is not changed. I think it doesn't work correctly as you said. – Oz6848 Aug 18 '11 at 08:45
and at the end of 'make' result message is 'Linking CXX shared library ../../bin/Printmade2/npMyProject.so', so I don't think it is static dynamic linking. – Oz6848 Aug 18 '11 at 09:16
Did you try a new out-of-source build dir? BTW static libs have the suffix .a not .so... – Lars Aug 18 '11 at 11:40
What I want to include is in /usr/lib and I already know about suffix. – Oz6848 Aug 19 '11 at 01:59

Want to make standalone program with cmake

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