Statically Linked Linux Binary?

Post by **Dave** » March 26th, 2004, 3:29 pm

We definitely don't have the resources to provide a Wesnoth binary for every distribution of Linux.

However, how difficult would it be to make a statically linked binary for Linux, that would be runnable on almost any distribution?

I have no idea how to do this kind of thing. Does anyone?

David

Icekiss · Post by **Icekiss** » March 26th, 2004, 11:28 pm

Thats not hard. From the gcc man-page:
-static
On systems that support dynamic linking, this prevents linking with the shared libraries. On other systems, this option has no effect.

All you have to do, is change the gcc Flag variables in the Makefiles and add "-static" to them. I have done so, and compiling Weshnot that way right now. Looks like every sourcefile is compiled using this Flag and there are no errors. Of course I don't have the means to test out whether the result really works without the libraries: I'm not going to install an older version of libc

But if you want to, I can either send you the compiled result (better: upload it somewhere) or I could send you the modified Makefiles. Of course they won't work for you if you have a different version of Linux running (I have Debian unstable), and ./configure would overwrite the Makefiles...
However, changing them yourself really isn't all that hard.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » March 27th, 2004, 1:12 am

Mhhh...
Doesn't seem to work fully automatic

The code compiled Ok, but did not link

The message I got:
martin@Terminus:~/downloads/wesnoth-0.7$ make
make all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/martin/downloads/wesnoth-0.7'
Making all in src
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/martin/downloads/wesnoth-0.7/src'
Making all in .
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/martin/downloads/wesnoth-0.7/src'
g++ -I/usr/include/SDL -D_REENTRANT -DWESNOTH_PATH=\"/usr/local/share/wesnoth\" -g -O2 -static -lSDL -lpthread -lSDL_image -lSDL_mixer -lSDL_net -lSDL_ttf -o wesnoth about.o actions.o ai.o ai_attack.o ai_move.o config.o dialogs.o display.o events.o filesystem.o font.o game.o game_config.o game_events.o gamestatus.o hotkeys.o image.o intro.o key.o language.o log.o map.o mapgen.o mapgen_dialog.o mouse.o multiplayer.o multiplayer_client.o multiplayer_connect.o multiplayer_lobby.o network.o pathfind.o playlevel.o playturn.o preferences.o race.o replay.o reports.o sdl_utils.o show_dialog.o sound.o team.o terrain.o theme.o tooltips.o unit.o unit_types.o video.o button.o combo.o menu.o scrollbar.o slider.o textbox.o widget.o
about.o(.text+0x1c29): In function `about::show_about(display&)':
/home/martin/downloads/wesnoth-0.7/src/scoped_resource.hpp:88: undefined reference to `SDL_UpperBlit'
about.o(.text+0x1de2):/home/martin/downloads/wesnoth-0.7/src/scoped_resource.hpp:88: undefined reference to `SDL_UpperBlit'

I verified that the code DOES compile for me without the static option.
It looks like it can't find its files it needs. I checked though: The searched directory is there. I tried inserting a space behind the "-l", but that does not change the result. I don't now how to proceed from here...

Dave, or anybody else?

Icekiss · Post by **Icekiss** » March 27th, 2004, 1:13 am

Sorry, that was me...
Small addition: The error above was followed by a bootload of other SDL references that weren't found (didn't look informative to me, just repeticion of the same problem. If sb. wants them, let me now)

Woodwizzle · Post by **Woodwizzle** » March 27th, 2004, 2:57 am

I don't know much at all about cross-distro linux binaries, but I do know that ADOM (a great, but closed source game) is available in ELF format and runs on every distro I've tried it on. I don't know what ELF is though but I hope it helps

Guest · Post by **Guest** » March 27th, 2004, 4:11 am

ELF simply is the standard executable file format in Linux (and other Unixes)
The a.out file gcc spits out is in this format...

Icekiss · Post by **Icekiss** » March 27th, 2004, 4:13 am

me...
(this damn site won't remember me, and I forget to log in time and again *sigh*)

ziberpunk · Post by **ziberpunk** » March 28th, 2004, 4:23 pm

I've built a static binary with current CVS codebase. You can get it here. Please test it.

To run it you have to do:

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./wesnoth path/to/data/files

If you test it, please tell us which version of glibc you have and if it worked or not.

miyo · Post by **miyo** » March 28th, 2004, 4:31 pm

Works fine for me:

Debian GNU/Linux (Sid), libc6: 2.3.2.ds1-11

- Miyo

cp1134 · Post by **cp1134** » June 24th, 2004, 11:24 pm

The static binary works fine for me with:

Slackware 9.0

Glibc 2.3.1

P.S. I'm new here and just wanted to say that this is a fun game.

-Chris Potter

Post by **Dave** » June 24th, 2004, 11:57 pm

cp1134 wrote: P.S. I'm new here and just wanted to say that this is a fun game.

Thanks; glad you enjoy it!

David

TuxVader · Post by **TuxVader** » June 25th, 2004, 2:08 am

YESSS!!! I couldn't get the new versions (.7.8+) working on linux, because I need a new version of gcc to compile them, but this could really help me!

It runs on SuSE 8.1 (linux kernel 2.4.x, glibc 2.2). Of course it doesn't run THAT well because I'm using the .7.7 data files!

TuxVader · Post by **TuxVader** » June 28th, 2004, 7:57 pm

Is anybody going to mack a static binary for the latest release?

I NEED it!!

ziberpunk · Post by **ziberpunk** » July 3rd, 2004, 3:03 pm

TuxVader wrote:Is anybody going to mack a static binary for the latest release?
I NEED it!!

Static binaries for 0.7.11 and 0.8 have been done and will be available as soon as possible.

TuxVader · Post by **TuxVader** » July 3rd, 2004, 4:14 pm

Great!! Hopefully this will help all the people that have problems compiling from source! Could they be packaged with the datafiles and given an install script?

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