Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU static build

[Christian Ehrhardt]

Salil Bijur wrote:
> On Jan 16, 2008 5:59 PM, Christian Ehrhardt <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Salil Bijur wrote:
> > > On Jan 16, 2008 4:48 PM, Mulyadi Santosa <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > > Hi
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Jan 16, 2008 5:20 PM, Salil Bijur <address@hidden> 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/address@hidden/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