Glade and static linking

Question

If I'm statically linking a GTK+ program under FreeBSD 8, gtk_builder_add_from_file() suddenly returns with an error:

Invalid object type `GtkWindow'

How to fix that? With dynamic linking everything works fine.

Update: linking is done by:

cc -o foobar foo.o bar.o main.o -Wall -pedantic -std=c99 D_THREAD_SAFE -DORBIT2=1 -D_REENTRANT -I/usr/local/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/local/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/local/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/local/include/cairo -I/usr/local/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/local/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/local/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/local/include/freetype2 -I/usr/local/include/gconf/2 -I/usr/local/include/orbit-2.0 -I/usr/local/include/dbus-1.0 -I/usr/local/include/dbus-1.0/include   -DGTK_DISABLE_DEPRECATED=1 -DGDK_DISABLE_DEPRECATED -DGDK_PIXBUF_DISABLE_DEPRECATED -DG_DISABLE_DEPRECATED=1 -DGTK_MULTIHEAD_SAFE=1 -export-dynamic -static -pthread -L/usr/local/lib -lgtk-x11-2.0 -lgdk-x11-2.0 -latk-1.0 -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lpangocairo-1.0 -lgio-2.0 -lXinerama -lXi -lXcursor -lXcomposite -lXdamage -lpangoft2-1.0 -lXext -lXfixes -lcairo -lpixman-1 -lpng -lxcb-render-util -lXrender -lxcb-render -lX11 -lxcb -lXau -lXdmcp -lpango-1.0 -lfontconfig -lexpat -lfreetype -lz -lgconf-2 -lORBit-2 -lm -ldbus-1 -lgmodule-2.0 -lgthread-2.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -liconv   -lintl -lpcre

or in another words, in Makefile I have:

CFLAGS := -Wall -pedantic -std=c99
LDFLAGS := -export-dynamic -static

CFLAGS += $(shell pkg-config --cflags gtk+-2.0 gconf-2.0) \
    -DGTK_DISABLE_DEPRECATED=1 -DGDK_DISABLE_DEPRECATED \
    -DGDK_PIXBUF_DISABLE_DEPRECATED -DG_DISABLE_DEPRECATED=1 \
    -DGTK_MULTIHEAD_SAFE=1
LDFLAGS += $(shell pkg-config --libs --static gtk+-2.0 gconf-2.0) -lintl -lpcre

...

$(NAME): $(OBJ)
    cc -o $@ $^ $(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS)

Answer 1

First of all linking gtk+ against an application statically is not supported. You are likely to run into a lot of hairy problems.

GtkBuilder needs to be able to dlopen your library, you need to make sure that all he symbols from the related libraries are also exported by your binary. On ELF systems you'll have to pass in the -export-dynamic/-Wl,-export-dynamic to the linker/gcc.