Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU static build

[Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

Salil Bijur wrote:
> On Jan 16, 2008 5:59 PM, Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>> Salil Bijur wrote:
>>> On Jan 16, 2008 4:48 PM, Mulyadi Santosa <mulyadi.santosa@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Jan 16, 2008 5:20 PM, Salil Bijur <salilbijur@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> I've been trying to build QEMU statically by first configuring it
>>>>> using the --static option. The compiling gives me the same linker
>>>>> errors as mentioned here:
>>>>> http://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg10721.html
>>>>>
>>>>> I know this has been asked before but it hasn't been followed up. Any
>>>>> ideas on how to fix this?
>>>> What do you want to do? to debug it? if yes, maybe you just want the
>>>> unstripped binary? dig qemu-devel and qemu-forum.... or at least try
>>>> the binary in target-i386..i believe it's unstripped. Can check it
>>>> here, because my box use gcc 4.x
>>>>
>>> I'm trying to build qemu-system-arm so my configure command is
>>> "./configure --target-list=arm-softmmu --static". I need a static
>>> build to overcome dynamic library dependency issues. Doing a 'make'
>>> with the above configure command breaks. I haven't found a solution on
>>> the forums.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Salil
>> I sometimes use a static build for the same reasons on ppc.
>> I did not have the same issue but I usually set LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -pthread" before doing configure&make.
>> Maybe it's worth a try if this helps your linker to find the pthread functions.
>>
> 
> Thanks - I did 'export LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -pthread"' before configure
> and it compiles further.
> 
> But there are further linker errors with respect to libasound (for
> ALSA) and libSDL. This can be solved by adding -ldl, -lartsc, etc. for
> every dependency of these libs but would be very tedious, especially
> for libSDL. Any better solution?
> 

The question is if you really need SDL for your environment - if not you can just add "--disable-sdl" and do the same with everything else e.g. alsa that is missing but not really needed.



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Grüsse / regards, 
Christian Ehrhardt
IBM Linux Technology Center, Open Virtualization