[alsa-devel] is statically linking libasound supported? because if i do it, i cant open the device!

[Takashi Iwai]

At Wed, 28 Mar 2007 10:06:01 -0700,
John Utz wrote:
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Takashi Iwai [mailto:tiwai at suse.de]
> Sent: Wed 3/28/2007 3:13 AM
> To: John Utz
> Cc: alsa-devel at alsa-project.org
> Subject: Re: [alsa-devel] is statically linking libasound supported? because if i do
> it, i cant open the device!
> 
> At Tue, 27 Mar 2007 18:05:50 -0700,
> John Utz wrote:
> >
> > but it fails to find hw:0,1 if i link it statically, is that expected behavior?
> 
> Did you check alsa-lib/INSTALL file?
> For creating a static lib, you have to use --disable-shared _and_
> --enable-static.
> 
> Why would i need to --disable-shared? i wanted both!

You cannot build both *.a and *.so _at the same time_ for alsa-lib.
partly because of bad behavior of libtool, partly because of the
design of alsa-lib (embedded plugins in static lib).

Simply build twice, once for a shared lib and once for a static lib.


> I got the libasound.a just find and it linked the app and the app *runs*, it just
> doesnt find the device!

The libasound.a is broken.


Takashi