Suggested environment for static build?

[Phantop]

I'm trying to do a static build of dwarfs so I can run the latest commit on the wip branch on Alpine Linux. This is due to musl libc not having all of the headers needed to build dwarfs and the lack of a jemalloc package in Alpine's repositories. The development packages provided in my distribution of choice (Solus) don't seem to work properly with the static build option. How exactly are the binaries on the releases page compiled?

On a side note, are the commits sitting on the wip branch every going to find their way into a release? I feel like some very useful features, namely cache cleanup, were added in those commits.

[mhx]

I'm trying to do a static build of dwarfs so I can run the latest commit on the wip branch on Alpine Linux. This is due to musl libc not having all of the headers needed to build dwarfs and the lack of a jemalloc package in Alpine's repositories. The development packages provided in my distribution of choice (Solus) don't seem to work properly with the static build option. How exactly are the binaries on the releases page compiled?

The release binaries are currently built on a VirtualBox VM running Ubuntu 20.04. Getting static builds to work across different distributions is likely not trivial.

On a side note, are the commits sitting on the wip branch every going to find their way into a release? I feel like some very useful features, namely cache cleanup, were added in those commits.

Yes, eventually. I was actually eager to work on some features before pushing out a new release, but I don't currently find the time. I'll try and merge the parts that are complete from wip and make a new release, but not in the next 2 weeks as I'll be mostly AFK.

[Phantop]

The release binaries are currently built on a VirtualBox VM running Ubuntu 20.04. Getting static builds to work across different distributions is likely not trivial.

I tried to compile it myself on an Ubuntu chroot and got the follow errors. Any ideas on what I can do about them?

make[2]: *** No rule to make target '_TMP_LIB_LOC_static_libacl-NOTFOUND', needed by 'dwarfsck'.  Stop.
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make[2]: *** No rule to make target '_TMP_LIB_LOC_static_libacl-NOTFOUND', needed by 'mkdwarfs'.  Stop.
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make[2]: *** No rule to make target '_TMP_LIB_LOC_static_libacl-NOTFOUND', needed by 'dwarfs'.  Stop.
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
[ 97%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/dwarfsck.dir/src/dwarfsck.cpp.o
[ 97%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/mkdwarfs.dir/src/mkdwarfs.cpp.o
[ 97%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/dwarfs-bin.dir/src/dwarfs.cpp.o
make[2]: *** No rule to make target '_TMP_LIB_LOC_static_libacl-NOTFOUND', needed by 'dwarfsextract'.  Stop.
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make[2]: *** No rule to make target '_TMP_LIB_LOC_static_libacl-NOTFOUND', needed by 'dwarfsbench'.  Stop.
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
[ 98%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/dwarfsextract.dir/src/dwarfsextract.cpp.o
[ 98%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/dwarfsbench.dir/src/dwarfsbench.cpp.o
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:519: CMakeFiles/dwarfsbench.dir/all] Error 2
make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:451: CMakeFiles/dwarfs-bin.dir/all] Error 2
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:485: CMakeFiles/dwarfsck.dir/all] Error 2
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:612: CMakeFiles/dwarfsextract.dir/all] Error 2
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:417: CMakeFiles/mkdwarfs.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [Makefile:152: all] Error 2

[mhx]

Any ideas on what I can do about them?

I don't have access to the VM now (for the next two weeks actually). It looks like it's not finding a statically linkable libacl. I'll get back to you once I can access the VM again.

[mhx]

Okay, I've just had a look at the VM and from what I see I had to build/install the following libraries manually as Ubuntu would not have static libraries to link against:

acl-2.2.53
bzip2-1.0.8
libarchive-3.4.0
libxml2-2.9.10+dfsg
nettle-3.5.1+really3.5.1

That being said, static builds are currently broken on both the main and wip branches due to facebook/folly#1623.

[mhx]

Just a quick update that I've got static builds working again. I'll try and get a release out as soon as possible.

[mhx]

Please check the docs for setting up a static build environment.

[Phantop]

I tried it on a 22.04 chroot and it worked easily with the instructions you gave in the README. Thanks a ton!

[mhx]

Awesome! Thanks for testing!