Xcode and static linking - not possible?

[Christiaan Hofman]

<http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2006/qa1393.html>

(I didn't know that, I just googled "xcode static library").

Christiaan

On 17 Jun 2008, at 2:12 PM, Jules Colding wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I can not get Xcode 3.0 to link statically. I have (among others)  
> the following libraries in "/opt/local/lib":
>
> -rwxr-xr-x  2 root  admin  371916  4 Jun 13:59 libORBit-2.0.1.0.dylib
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  admin      22  4 Jun 13:59 libORBit-2.0.dylib ->  
> libORBit-2.0.1.0.dylib
> -rw-r--r--  2 root  admin  523632  4 Jun 13:59 libORBit-2.a
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  admin      22  4 Jun 13:59 libORBit-2.dylib ->  
> libORBit-2.0.1.0.dylib
> -rwxr-xr-x  2 root  admin    1077  4 Jun 13:59 libORBit-2.la
>
>
> I want to link with "libORBit-2.a". I went about doing that by  
> adding the library to the "External Frameworks and Libraries" folder  
> in my Xcode project. Building the binary goes fine but when  
> inspected with "otool -L" it is shown that it links against  
> "libORBit-2.0.dylib" - not the static library.
>
> Is there any way I can persuade Xcode to link the binary with the  
> static library?
>
>
> Thanks a lot in advance,
>  jules