[poppler] Static build of utils

[Mike Tonks]

Thanks Patrick, I guess I should try again to build with mingw to get
away from the cygwin issues.  Just that cygwin has most of the
dependencies if you hunt through the package list, and I didn't have
much luck with mingw on the first attempt.

Ideally I would like to deploy to various windows machines just by
dropping in an exe, without having to install a load of stuff.  I
guess if I have all the dll's this might not be a problem.

We have an old pdf2xml.exe for example that does just this, built
against the original xpdf libraries.

mike


On 15 April 2010 10:57, Patrick Spendrin <ps_ml at gmx.de> wrote:
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> Am 13.04.2010 18:34, schrieb Mike Tonks:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is it easy to build the utils statically - I would really like a
>> statically linked pdftohtml.exe (on Windows).
>>
>> I have sucessfully built poppler under cygwin using:
>>
>> ./configure
>> make
>>
>> Is there some option I can add to this to create a static build?
>>
>> Thanks for any help.
>
> Well, the problem is to have all your dependencies as static libraries
> as well.
> For me this freetype, jpeg, openjpeg, lcms, libpng, for you also
> cygwin*, which you would all need as static libraries as well. This is
> probably much harder than getting poppler itself building statically
> (you already do not have any dependency on libpoppler at all for pdftohtml).
> You can see the dependencies of your .exe or your dll with depends.exe
> (Dependency Walker, search for it on google).
> - From my point of view, I would rethink why you need a static file.
>
>>
>> mike
>
> regards,
> Patrick
>
> * it might be even impossible to have a static cygwin.dll
>
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