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[Julie Bernauer <>]

Hello,

I just had a comment about static compiling from precompiled CGAL 
package (.deb files in my case). As a basic user, I only use deb 
packages for libraries (boost, ...).

It took me some time to manage to compile static because actually, I 
first used:
cmake -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=FALSE -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS='-static -g' .
stupidly and it did not work as I did not know that the 
libboost_thread-mt.a needed the lpthread flag to be compatible with the 
libstdc++ static lib. Thus with:
cmake -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=FALSE -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS='-static -g -lpthread' .
it worked just fine.

I don't know whether it is the right way to do it but as it seems to 
work fine, it is fine to me.

I was just wondering whether it would have been possible to toggle the 
-lpthread flag by default somewhere, so that getting static compiling 
with CGAL get as easy as dynamic compiling.
Providing two CMakeList.txt or this kind of solution example files could 
also be a plus.

Having this type of thing mentioned in the documentation would also be 
helpful to end users. I could not find it and it would have saved me 
some time.


Julie