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NCurses Library for Go
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Static Linking PDCurses #28

Closed schancel closed 8 years ago

schancel commented 9 years ago

This is a pretty nifty project. Any thought about converting over to using static linking instead of a shared library to ease installation?

rthornton128 commented 9 years ago

I haven't given it any thought to be honest. It certainly would help post-install. Perhaps best to provide instructions for static linking along side the shared library instructions and leave it up to the user?

rthornton128 commented 9 years ago

Done some preliminary work on statically linking pdcurses.a (as well as vendoring pdcurses using git submodules) without avail. I have attempted several ways of static linking with cgo, including following the recommendation by Ian Taylor from this thread: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/golang-nuts/H-NTwhQVp-8/i5vhUB5dZ5QJ.

Near as I can tell, they prefer cgo to use dynamic linking so we may be stuck with that.