Re: Build OpenSSH w/ static Lib

Asif Iqbal wrote:
> I am in the process of building OpenSSH 3.9p1 on Solaris 9. [...]
> How do I surely make OpenSSH with static SSL,Zlib and other required
> libraries?

It you want to build the entire thing statically, it's just a matter of 
adding the "static" flag for your compiler (for gcc that's "-static", 
other compilers will vary).  This is probably not a good idea since it's 
not a supported ABI on Solaris and is pretty much guaranteed to break at 
some point.

If you just want to statically link OpenSSL and zlib then basically you 
just need to make sure that the linker finds static libraries first.

One way to do this would be to create a directory containing only the 
static libraries and tell the linker to look there first.  Something 
like this ought to work (untested):

mkdir /usr/local/staticlib
ln -s /usr/local/ssl/lib/libcrypto.a /usr/local/staticlib/libcrypto.a
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libz.a /usr/local/static/lib/libz.a

cd openssh-3.9p1
./configure --with-ldflags=-L/usr/local/staticlib \
   --with-cppflags="-I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/ssl/include"
make

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