Force static linking of library linked to Xcode target?

Question

My Xcode target links against hdf5 library (using the Link Binary with Libraries build phase). libhdf5 is installed using MacPorts, thus /opt/local/lib contains both the dyn

Answer 1

Had this exact same problem and despite this being an old post, I thought I'd share what I had to do to make this work.

Usually you do just provide the switch '-static' to the linker however, with Xcode this causes all libs including the crt to be linked statically. I got the error:

can't locate file for: -lcrt0.o

When I tried this.

The thing which worked for me was to replace:

-lmylib

with

/path/to/libmylib.a

Note: the -l is dropped.