Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU static build

[Salil Bijur]

On Jan 16, 2008 6:50 PM, Christian Ehrhardt <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> 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.
>

I do need both alsa and SDL. Currently I'm getting the libraries from
apt-get. Is it a good idea to rebuild them from sources?