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

[Takashi Iwai]

At Wed, 28 Mar 2007 19:11:17 +0200,
I wrote:
> 
> 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.

Well, I meant the libasound.a you made is broken.
When you build libasound.a without --disable-shared, it passes -DPIC
and it's built with assumption of shared library use.


Takashi