Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 13:02:04 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Kent S. Gordon" <kgor@inetspace.com>
Subject: Re: Easy way to force static Informix libraries with DBD:Informix

>> "kgor" == Kent S Gordon <kgor@inetspace.com> wrote:
> Is there a easy way to create a DBD:Informix that uses static Informix
> libraries, but dynamic system libraries for everything else.

I have succeeded in building a perl witn DBD:Informix that uses dynamic
loading for every except DBD:Informix and DBI.  I got a runtime error of
not being able to find the symbol of boot_DBI if DBI was also not
statically built into perl.  Here is a short discription of what I did.

1)  Built perl 5.004_2 normally.
2)  Installed perl.
3)  Built DBI statically (make static).
4)  Installed DBI (make install).  This is not just the install of the perl
    binary, since DBI.a is needed later.
5)  Changed DBD Makefile.pl to call esql -static and esql -static -libs
    instead of esql and esql -libs.
6)  Created DBD Makefile using perl Makefile.PL.
7)  Built DBD statically (make static and make perl, etc.)
8)  The make test_static failed, due to wanting to create a dynamic object
    (Informix.sl failed due to trying fixup a symbol)
9)  Installed with make -k install to get pass error creating Informix.sl,
    while still installing Informix.pm (could not find a special install
    for static perl.
10) Installed new perl executable.  It seems to work after some initial
    test.

Kent S. Gordon
Senior Software Engineer
iNetSpace Co.
voice: (972)851-3494 fax:(972)702-0384 e-mail:kgor@inetspace.com

--
1997-09-30: Jonathan Leffler notes:

Kent must be building on HP-UX because of the references to Informix.sl.

Be wary of the licencing issues with the Informix software (as distinct
from DBD::Informix).  As of 13th August 1997, it is not absolutely clear
whether copying the Perl executable to a machine without an Informix
runtime licence is legal, but it probably isn't.  And with the more
recent versions of Informix, it (probably) won't work either because you
will need the GLS locale information.  And not having the message files
reduces the friendliness of the error messages produced by DBD::Informix.

$Id: static.build,v 100.1 2002/02/08 22:50:03 jleffler Exp $