Re: [Qemu-devel] Statically Compiling including SDL

[Sam McKelvie <sammck@gmail.com>]

Apologies for breaking the thread of the discussion; still
haven’t figured out how to cold-respond to a thread without an incoming email.

Thank you for your response. Indeed, for my purposes I only need the
static linux-user binary, so I can just remove SDL and it’s not a problem.

I’d agree that it is an SDL package distribution problem; in this case it is coming
from delian-jessie.

Thank you,
Sam McKelvie

> On May 11, 2016, at 11:30 AM, Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> wrote:
> 
> On 11 May 2016 at 19:12, Sam McKelvie <sammck@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I am having this same problem. Looking at the configure script
>> it looks like it prefers to use:
>> 
>>   pkg-config sdl —static
>> 
>> to get the static linker flags, rather than:
>> 
>>  sdl-config —static-libs
> 
> Are you trying to statically compile to get a linux-user
> binary, or a system-emulation binary? For the former we
> shouldn't be linking in SDL anyway, and statically compiling
> the latter isn't really supported in my view. (Maybe we
> should make configure explicitly reject it. It has a tendency
> to break because distros don't check the static-compilation
> version of their pkg-config configuration files.)
> 
>> The former returns an empty string; the latter returns the correct
>> library list. If it had used the latter it would work properly.
>> There is a note in the configure effect suggesting that pig-config
>> is preferred, but I’m not sure why that is…
> 
> pkg-config plays better with cross compilation: you have one
> your-architecture-pkg-config which knows about the config files
> for that architecture for all libraries. Having a different
> config script for each library makes it a huge pain to try
> to swap in the right one for each architecture.
> 
> (If the two give different answers this is a distro bug.)
> 
> thanks
> -- PMM