Re: Big, fat statically-linked gnumeric executable

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 02:00:32PM +1000, Simon Taylor wrote:
> What I'm trying to do however, is to set up a web page where people who are 
> not developers can simply download and evaluate the latest gnumeric 
> executable.

> A single hyperlink that lets such a user download the latest stable version of 
> the program and then *run* it,  is what I want to provide, (or have someone 
> else provide). 
This is certainly a noble goal.  You should be able to achive this
by building with
    --disable-shared
in all the library packages you can from the base up.   Then
building gnumeric normally.  You can not use --disable-shared with
gnumeric if you want the plugins to work.

> As for the use of plugins, I think this might be a fair trade off. If a new 
> user likes the spreadsheet enough, this'll give them the motivation they need 
> to build it from rpms, or perhaps to install Ximian Evolution.
Without the plugins things like excel read/write will not work which
would probably decrease the utility of gnumeric markedly.  You can
hard code a plugin (see src/xml-io.c) but it is not something I want
to do in the core.