Re: [Alsa-user] ALSA, link static, cannot find -lasound

[Takashi I. <ti...@su...>]

At Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:23:18 +0530 (IST),
pav...@in... wrote:
> 
> There should have been an option to build alsa utilities statically.
> To check the speaker of a platform, I don't have to port the whole of alsa-lib + alsa-utilities on my small busybox file-system, do i ?
> 
> So an aplay or speaker-test would be really helpful in those situations.
> I tried too, to build it statically, but yes, dl_* calls doesn't allow it to be built statically.

Read alsa-lib/INSTALL.  In short, build only static library without shared lib once,
	./configure --disable-shared --enable-static


Takashi

> 
> regards,
> Pavan
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: John Haxby <jc...@th...>
> To: MrU...@po...
> Cc: als...@li...
> Sent: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:57:44 +0530 (IST)
> Subject: Re: [Alsa-user] ALSA, link static, cannot find -lasound
> 
> William Estrada wrote:
> > hi group,
> >
> > Trying to rebuild my ALSA programs with static libs.
> >
> > [snip]
> > but when I try with -static, I get this:
> > Code:
> >
> > gcc  -g -O2 -static  -lasound -o volume volume.o 
> > /usr/local/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.2/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: cannot find -lasound
> >   
> 
> There isn't a libasound.a so far as I'm aware.    I would say that it's 
> unlikely that any distro would provide one since the alsa library 
> dynamically loads its various modules which rather defeats the object of 
> it being static.
> 
> To be honest, unless you have a really, really good case for a static 
> executable you should avoid them anyway.   At the moment, I can't think 
> of a sensible use-case for static ALSA programs, although I'm sure 
> someone could!
> 
> jch
> 
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