[Mesa-users] Statically linking and figuring out the build system

[Brian Paul]

On 11/09/2017 09:04 PM, Reepca Russelstein wrote:
> Normally I'd just ask the direct question, but I get the feeling I'm a
> bit out of my depth here, so I'll just explain completely what I'm
> trying to do.
>
> I want to compile llvmpipe and get a nice, shiny, libGL.so that I can
> toss on another machine I have little control over (can't install
> stuff to it) and have it work like a charm. So I checked out the
> latest mesa, ran ./autogen.sh (after making sure I had all the
> requirements installed), ran ./configure, ran "make linux-llvm" like
> the instructions said, and got the message
>
> make: *** No rule to make target 'llvm-linux'.  Stop.

I need to update that documentation...

-Brian

>
> so that was weird. I tried using scons, and the instructions worked
> there. I verified that it worked on my system using LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> and glxinfo, then chucked it onto the other system to test, at which
> point it complained about being unable to find necessary libraries.
>
> So I did a lot of mostly-fruitless searching trying to find out how to
> get a statically-linked build of llvmpipe. I stumbled on the
> --enable-static flag for the automake-based build system, but using
> just --enable-static=yes caused ./configure to complain about DRI
> being unable to be built as a static library, so I tried
>
> ./configure --enable-static=yes --enable-shared=DRI
>
> which also failed with the same error. I very much don't want to dive
> into reading through makefiles and such, so I'd like your help in
> figuring out:
>
> - How to get a statically-linked libGL.so when building with scons
> - How to get a statically-linked libGL.so when building with make
> - How to build llvmpipe with make
> - Most importantly, where can I find up-to-date information about this
> stuff if not at mesa3d.org?
>
> Thanks.
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