getting started

[Alcimar Barbosa Soares]

Dear Antonio Costa, Fergus and John van Groningen,

Thanks for your help... It works wonderfully... We can now start the real
work...
Our volunteers (as soon as we start some clinical trials) will also send you
their gratitude :)....

Alcimar


Fergus Henderson wrote:

> On 20-May-2000, Antonio Eduardo Costa Pereira <costa@ufu.br> wrote:
> > The poor volunteer, besides loosing his left arm in an accident, must
> > use the right one to carry a PC around, in order to execute the
> > Clean program that controls his prosthetic arm. The other option
> > is to plug the volunteer to a PC, like a marionette.
> >
> > I suggested Dr. Alcimar Soares (the head of the project) and other people
> > involved that they should run the program from one of those specialized
> > computers, whose weight is only 1 kg, and that are driven by a tiny linux.
> > There is only a problem with my suggestion. Dr. Jamil Salem (the
> > Linux man) could not figure out  how to generate static execs with Linux
> > Clean. He  tried almost every link option and all we got was dynamic
> > linking. Could someone tell me how to s-link Linux Clean?
>
> This was such a good cause that I finally got around to downloading
> Clean and trying it out.
>
> You can statically link programs using the following commands:
>
>         echo "-static" > static.lo
>         clm -sl static ...
>
> For example, to statically link the `tak' program in the
> `examples' directory of the Clean distribution, create the
> `static.lo' file using the echo command above and then use
>
>         clm -s static tak -o tak
>
> Cheers,
>         Fergus.
>
> --
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> WWW: <http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~fjh>  |  of excellence is a lethal habit"
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