Control: retitle -1 libsdl1.2-dev: static linking not supported
Control: severity -1 wishlist
Control: notforwarded -1
Control: tags -1 = wontfix
On Sun, 13 Jan 2013 at 16:01:52 +0100, Schrober wrote:
> Compiling a program statically with `sdl-config --static-libs ...` will
> result
> in missing symbols
libsdl1.2-dev is now provided by sdl12-compat, which doesn't ship a static
library, so this is not going to be fixable.
It wouldn't make much sense to link programs to sdl12-compat statically,
because sdl12-compat works by dlopen()ing SDL2, so there is dynamic
linking happening there whether you want it to or not.
In newer programs that have been ported to SDL2, linking to a static
SDL2 with CMake is possible (and there's an automated test for it), but
fully-static linking is impossible because some of SDL2's dependencies
(notably libasound) do not provide a static library at all.
smcv
