Compile IPbus as static library

[dinardo]

Dear experts,
would it be possible to compile IPbus as a static library?
I'm not an expert of make files, how shall I do that?

Many thanks,

• Mauro.

[tswilliams]

Hi,

The makefiles did not include the commands required for static libraries, but I've now added those commands to the task/static-linkage branch.

If you're in urgent need to produce statically-linked applications that are based on uHAL then checking out that branch (commit 60c2c44), and running make with BUILD_STATIC=1 should produce statically-linked libraries successfully. I.e:

git clone --depth=1 -b task/static-linkage  https://github.com/ipbus/ipbus-software.git
cd ipbus-software/uhal
make BUILD_STATIC=1

I still want to make one or two changes to this branch (related to unit tests) before merging it, so it won't be merged until the end of the week, but based on my tests so far, the the main library should already work correctly.

Cheers,
Tom

[dinardo]

Hi Tom,
ok git it.
Many thanks,

• Mauro.

[tswilliams]

Brief update: There was actually a makefile bug in the previous commit (that only affected the uhal/tests package. I've just pushed a new commit to the task/static-linkage branch (commit 9c31975) that resolves that problem.

[tswilliams]

Brief update: The changes from the branch mentioned above have now been merged into the master branch, and will be included in a new release - version 2.7.0 - that will be created in the next week.