Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-ga static compilation

[Sameeh Jubran]

On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 3:57 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 06:51:37PM +0200, Sameeh Jubran wrote:
> > I am trying to compile qemu-ga for Windows statically using the following
> > commands:
> >
> > ./configure --disable-docs --target-list=x86_64-softmmu
> > --cross-prefix=x86_64-w64-mingw32- --static --enable-guest-agent-msi
> > --with-vss-sdk=/path/to/VSSSDK72
> >
> > make -j8 qemu-ga
> >
> >
> > And I keep getting this error:
> >
> > /home/sameeh/Builds/q/stubs/error-printf.c:7: undefined reference to
> > `__imp_g_test_config_vars'
> > collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
> > Makefile:444: recipe for target 'qemu-ga.exe' failed
> > make: *** [qemu-ga.exe] Error 1
> >
> >
> > Notes to consider:
> > * without --static I can compile it successfully
> > * Build machine is running Fedora 25
> > * I have upgraded all of the tools to their latest version
> > * If I comment out the function which is causing the issue
> > (g_test_initialized()), qemu ga compiles statically and runs successfully
> > without the need of any dlls.
> >
> > Can anyone reproduce this? Do you have any idea why is this happening?
>
> I guess GLIB_STATIC_COMPILATION is not defined in your build (see the
> definition of GLIB_VAR in the glib headers).
>
> The pkg-config file for glib doesn't define GLIB_STATIC_COMPILATION for
> pkg-config --static.  I guess we must add it manually.
>
> Does this work?
>
> diff --git a/configure b/configure
> index 99d8bec..10f23b7 100755
> --- a/configure
> +++ b/configure
> @@ -3047,6 +3047,10 @@ if test "$modules" = yes; then
>      glib_modules="$glib_modules gmodule-2.0"
>  fi
>
> +if test "$static" = yes; then
> +    QEMU_CFLAGS="-DGLIB_STATIC_COMPILATION $QEMU_CFLAGS"
> +fi
> +
>
Yes! this works thank you =)

>  for i in $glib_modules; do
>      if $pkg_config --atleast-version=$glib_req_ver $i; then
>          glib_cflags=$($pkg_config --cflags $i)
>



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