Semi-officially, QEMU only aims to support static linking with usermode emulators, not system mode emulators. I'm not sure we make that clear anywhere in the docs, or configure script. We should probably print a warning from configure if using --static in combination with system emulators, that this is an untested scenario and users are responsible for figuring out any problems they hit such as missing libraries at link time.
In particular it is a known limitation that the configure checks for pre-requisite libraries only validate existence of the shared libraries, and make no attempt to look for the static variant, and it was decided not to fix that. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1878348 Title: --static build fails in v5.0 (since 5010cec2bc87dafab39b3913c8ca91f88df9c540) Status in QEMU: New Bug description: Hi, Since commit 5010cec2bc87dafab39b3913c8ca91f88df9c540, building qemu fails when configured with --static (eg ../configure --target- list=x86_64-softmmu,x86_64-linux-user --enable-debug --static). On ubuntu 16.04, it fails to find -lffi and -lselinux. After I apt-get install libffi-dev libselinux1-dev, the build still fails: ../backends/dbus-vmstate.o: In function `_nocheck__trace_dbus_vmstate_pre_save': /home/christophe.lyon/src/qemu/build-static/backends/trace.h:29: undefined reference to `_TRACE_DBUS_VMSTATE_PRE_SAVE_DSTATE' ../backends/dbus-vmstate.o: In function `_nocheck__trace_dbus_vmstate_post_load': /home/christophe.lyon/src/qemu/build-static/backends/trace.h:52: undefined reference to `_TRACE_DBUS_VMSTATE_POST_LOAD_DSTATE' ../backends/dbus-vmstate.o: In function `_nocheck__trace_dbus_vmstate_loading': /home/christophe.lyon/src/qemu/build-static/backends/trace.h:75: undefined reference to `_TRACE_DBUS_VMSTATE_LOADING_DSTATE' ../backends/dbus-vmstate.o: In function `_nocheck__trace_dbus_vmstate_saving': /home/christophe.lyon/src/qemu/build-static/backends/trace.h:98: undefined reference to `_TRACE_DBUS_VMSTATE_SAVING_DSTATE' collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1878348/+subscriptions