[Openmd-developers] QHULL as static while building

[Martin Vala]

Hi Dan,

i will and i will let you know. Probably i will have to remove STATIC 
from add_library (...)

Ciao

Martin

On 08/09/2014 21:22, Dan Gezelter wrote:
>> Is there a reason that openmd uses static lib instead of shared lib? Because from c++ point of view it will only increase size of final executable size. If one would compile qhull as shared size of executable is smaller, but qhull shared lib would need to be in LD_LIBRARY_PATH, which i think is not problem.
> Martin,
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> I think an earlier version of the qhull library didn't actually work on dynamic loading.  If you try converting to shared, make sure you test out a simulation that uses the LHull integrator.   I'll try a build now without to see.
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