SOLVED(?): failed to load "./stock_about_16.png": Couldn't recognize the image file format

John Bowler wrote:
> Which means it won't work with static linking. 
libpng-config, on the
> other hand, includes -lz when called with --static.

Isn't that what the Libs.private field in the .pc files is
for, and the 
--static option to pkg-config?

> I guess that's a theoretical possibility, but so far
as I am aware
> an attempt to link an application against a DLL with
unresolved
> symbol references fails (e.g. -lpng12 without -lz prior
to 1.2.8).

Doesn't it only fail if you use -z defs?



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From: Christian Biesinger
>John Bowler wrote:
>> I guess that's a theoretical possibility, but so
far as I am aware an 
>> attempt to link an application against a DLL with
unresolved symbol 
>> references fails (e.g. -lpng12 without -lz prior to
1.2.8).
>
>Doesn't it only fail if you use -z defs?

I just used the defaults - "gcc -o t t.c
-lpng12", where t.c is
trivial "int main(void){return 0;}".  That
failed to link because
of all the unresolved zlib symbols when I used 1.2.8.  In
the 1.2.8
configure build it is fine because the .so *is* linked
against -lz
and -lm

John Bowler <jbowleracm.org>



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