Built on Alpine linux edge

Static binaries are available here: https://github.com/userdocs/lftp-static/releases/latest

Build Platforms

Alpine linux as the host OS.

Builds are created using https://github.com/multiarch/qemu-user-static and arch specific docker images detailed in the table below.

Alpine Arch	Docker platform arch	Docker hub image
armhf	linux/arm/v6	arm32v6/alpine:edge
armv7	linux/arm/v7	arm32v7/alpine:edge
aarch64	linux/arm64	arm64v8/alpine:edge
ppc64le	linux/ppc64le	ppc64le/alpine:edge
s390x	linux/s390x	s390x/alpine:edge
x86	linux/i386	i386/alpine:edge
x86_64	linux/amd64	amd64/alpine:edge

Generic Build dependencies

Install the main build dependencies

apk add autoconf automake build-base curl git libtool linux-headers perl pkgconf python3 python3-dev tar

Install the lftp build dependencies

apk add expat-dev expat-static gettext-dev gettext-static libidn-dev libunistring-dev libunistring-static ncurses-dev ncurses-static openssl-dev openssl-libs-static readline-dev readline-static zlib-dev zlib-static

Generic Build Instructions

Download the self hosted source code

curl -sL https://github.com/userdocs/lftp-static/raw/master/src/lftp-4.9.2.tar.gz -o lftp-4.9.2.tar.gz
tar xf lftp-4.9.2.tar.gz
cd lftp-4.9.2

Set some required build flags

export CXXFLAGS="--static -static -std=c++17"
export CPPFLAGS="--static -static"
export LDFLAGS="--static -static"

Configure

./configure LIBS="-l:libreadline.a -l:libncursesw.a" --prefix="$HOME" --with-openssl --without-gnutls --enable-static --enable-threads=posix

Build

make -j$(nproc)
make install

Check the linking was done properly

ldd ~/bin/lftp

Version

Use this command to check the version.

~/bin/lftp --version

Will show something like this.

Note: Libraries used: will be blank since it only checks the dynamically linked libs. Ours are all statically linked

LFTP | Version 4.9.1 | Copyright (c) 1996-2020 Alexander V. Lukyanov

LFTP is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with LFTP.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

Send bug reports and questions to the mailing list <lftp@uniyar.ac.ru>.

Libraries used:

Use the static binaries from this repo

Download and install to the bin directory of your local user (for root this may not be in the $PATH)

Pick the platform URL you need:

i386 / x86

mkdir -p ~/bin && source ~/.profile
wget -qO ~/bin/lftp https://github.com/userdocs/lftp-static/releases/latest/download/lftp-i386
chmod 700 ~/bin/lftp

amd64

mkdir -p ~/bin && source ~/.profile
wget -qO ~/bin/lftp https://github.com/userdocs/lftp-static/releases/latest/download/lftp-amd64
chmod 700 ~/bin/lftp

arm32v6

mkdir -p ~/bin && source ~/.profile
wget -qO ~/bin/lftp https://github.com/userdocs/lftp-static/releases/latest/download/lftp-arm32v6
chmod 700 ~/bin/lftp

arm32v7

mkdir -p ~/bin && source ~/.profile
wget -qO ~/bin/lftp https://github.com/userdocs/lftp-static/releases/latest/download/lftp-arm32v7
chmod 700 ~/bin/lftp

aarch64 / arm64

mkdir -p ~/bin && source ~/.profile
wget -qO ~/bin/lftp https://github.com/userdocs/lftp-static/releases/latest/download/lftp-arm64v8
chmod 700 ~/bin/lftp

ppc64le

mkdir -p ~/bin && source ~/.profile
wget -qO ~/bin/lftp https://github.com/userdocs/lftp-static/releases/latest/download/lftp-ppc64le
chmod 700 ~/bin/lftp

s390x

mkdir -p ~/bin && source ~/.profile
wget -qO ~/bin/lftp https://github.com/userdocs/lftp-static/releases/latest/download/lftp-s390x
chmod 700 ~/bin/lftp

Check the version:

~/bin/lftp --version