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Dominus


Joined: 13 Oct 2009
Posts: 127
Post Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2015 11:26 pm
Hi all,

I'm used to building some project snapshots with static libs and used to get those for SDL 1.2x via "sdl-config --static-libs".

Now that one of them has been partially ported to SDL2 I found that "sdl2-config --static-libs" does NOT return the static libs of SDL2.

When I compared the two configs I found that

- sdl-config --static-libs has the lines
Code:
--static-libs)
#    --libs|--static-libs)
      echo -L${exec_prefix}/lib  ${libdir}/libSDL.a  -lm -liconv -Wl,manyframeworks


- sdl2-config --static-libs has the lines
Code:
--static-libs)
#    --libs|--static-libs)
      echo -L${exec_prefix}/lib  ${libdir}/libSDLmain.a ${libdir}/libSDL.a  -Wl,manyframeworks


Further digging led me to configure.in which is missing the special OS X case that SDL 1.2x had:
Code:
case "$ARCH" in
  macosx)
    if test x$enable_video = xyes -a x$enable_video_cocoa = xyes; then
      SDL_LIBS="$SDL_LIBS -Wl,-framework,Cocoa"
    fi
    if test x$enable_video = xyes -a x$enable_video_carbon = xyes; then
      SDL_LIBS="$SDL_LIBS -Wl,-framework,Carbon"
    fi
    # Evil hack to allow static linking on Mac OS X
    SDL_STATIC_LIBS="\${libdir}/libSDLmain.a \${libdir}/libSDL.a $EXTRA_LDFLAGS"
    ;;
  *)
    SDL_STATIC_LIBS="$SDL_LIBS $EXTRA_LDFLAGS"
    ;;
esac


Then traced it back to revison Revision: 6303 and bug https://bugzilla.libsdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1429
I would still like to build statically with this option. I mean, I can just manually edit sdl2-config but I want to understand why you removed it.
As per the bug report I don't understand how --libs could be affected by this. But then I hardly understand everything around code Smile
Re: OS X and sdl2-config --static-libs
Dominus


Joined: 13 Oct 2009
Posts: 127
Post Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2015 11:44 pm
Dominus wrote:
Hi all,

I'm used to building some project snapshots with static libs and used to get those for SDL 1.2x via "sdl-config --static-libs".

Now that one of them has been partially ported to SDL2 I found that "sdl2-config --static-libs" does NOT return the static libs of SDL2.

When I compared the two configs I found that

- sdl-config --static-libs has the lines
Code:
--static-libs)
#    --libs|--static-libs)
      echo -L${exec_prefix}/lib  ${libdir}/libSDL.a  -lm -liconv -Wl,manyframeworks


- sdl2-config --static-libs has the lines
Code:
--static-libs)
#    --libs|--static-libs)
      echo -L${exec_prefix}/lib  ${libdir}/libSDLmain.a ${libdir}/libSDL.a  -Wl,manyframeworks


Further digging led me to configure.in which is missing the special OS X case that SDL 1.2x had:
Code:
case "$ARCH" in
  macosx)
    if test x$enable_video = xyes -a x$enable_video_cocoa = xyes; then
      SDL_LIBS="$SDL_LIBS -Wl,-framework,Cocoa"
    fi
    if test x$enable_video = xyes -a x$enable_video_carbon = xyes; then
      SDL_LIBS="$SDL_LIBS -Wl,-framework,Carbon"
    fi
    # Evil hack to allow static linking on Mac OS X
    SDL_STATIC_LIBS="\${libdir}/libSDLmain.a \${libdir}/libSDL.a $EXTRA_LDFLAGS"
    ;;
  *)
    SDL_STATIC_LIBS="$SDL_LIBS $EXTRA_LDFLAGS"
    ;;
esac


Then traced it back to revison Revision: 6303 and bug https://bugzilla.libsdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1429
I would still like to build statically with this option. I mean, I can just manually edit sdl2-config but I want to understand why you removed it.
As per the bug report I don't understand how --libs could be affected by this. But then I hardly understand everything around code Smile


Also you might need to change docs/README-macosx.md accordingly.
OS X and sdl2-config --static-libs
Joseph Carter


Joined: 20 Sep 2013
Posts: 279
Post Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2015 10:36 am
On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 11:44:03PM +0000, Dominus wrote:
Quote:

Dominus wrote:
Quote:
Hi all,

I'm used to building some project snapshots with static libs and used to get those for SDL 1.2x via "sdl-config --static-libs".

Now that one of them has been partially ported to SDL2 I found that "sdl2-config --static-libs" does NOT return the static libs of SDL2.

When I compared the two configs I found that

- sdl-config --static-libs has the lines

Code:
--static-libs)
# --libs|--static-libs)
echo -L${exec_prefix}/lib ${libdir}/libSDL.a -lm -liconv -Wl,manyframeworks



- sdl2-config --static-libs has the lines

Code:
--static-libs)
# --libs|--static-libs)
echo -L${exec_prefix}/lib ${libdir}/libSDLmain.a ${libdir}/libSDL.a -Wl,manyframeworks



Further digging led me to configure.in which is missing the special OS X case that SDL 1.2x had:

Code:
case "$ARCH" in
macosx)
if test x$enable_video = xyes -a x$enable_video_cocoa = xyes; then
SDL_LIBS="$SDL_LIBS -Wl,-framework,Cocoa"
fi
if test x$enable_video = xyes -a x$enable_video_carbon = xyes; then
SDL_LIBS="$SDL_LIBS -Wl,-framework,Carbon"
fi
# Evil hack to allow static linking on Mac OS X
SDL_STATIC_LIBS="\${libdir}/libSDLmain.a \${libdir}/libSDL.a $EXTRA_LDFLAGS"
;;
*)
SDL_STATIC_LIBS="$SDL_LIBS $EXTRA_LDFLAGS"
;;
esac



Then traced it back to revison Revision: 6303 and bug https://bugzilla.libsdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1429
I would still like to build statically with this option. I mean, I can just manually edit sdl2-config but I want to understand why you removed it.
As per the bug report I don't understand how --libs could be affected by this. But then I hardly understand everything around code Smile


Also you might need to change docs/README-macosx.md accordingly.

And Cocoa only. No carbon anymore.

Joseph


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Re: OS X and sdl2-config --static-libs
Dominus


Joined: 13 Oct 2009
Posts: 127
Post Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2015 12:45 am
Joseph Carter wrote:
On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 11:44:03PM +0000, Dominus wrote:
Quote:

Dominus wrote:
Quote:
Hi all,

I'm used to building some project snapshots with static libs and used to get those for SDL 1.2x via "sdl-config --static-libs".

Now that one of them has been partially ported to SDL2 I found that "sdl2-config --static-libs" does NOT return the static libs of SDL2.

When I compared the two configs I found that

- sdl-config --static-libs has the lines

Code:
--static-libs)
# --libs|--static-libs)
echo -L${exec_prefix}/lib ${libdir}/libSDL.a -lm -liconv -Wl,manyframeworks



- sdl2-config --static-libs has the lines

Code:
--static-libs)
# --libs|--static-libs)
echo -L${exec_prefix}/lib ${libdir}/libSDLmain.a ${libdir}/libSDL.a -Wl,manyframeworks



Further digging led me to configure.in which is missing the special OS X case that SDL 1.2x had:

Code:
case "$ARCH" in
macosx)
if test x$enable_video = xyes -a x$enable_video_cocoa = xyes; then
SDL_LIBS="$SDL_LIBS -Wl,-framework,Cocoa"
fi
if test x$enable_video = xyes -a x$enable_video_carbon = xyes; then
SDL_LIBS="$SDL_LIBS -Wl,-framework,Carbon"
fi
# Evil hack to allow static linking on Mac OS X
SDL_STATIC_LIBS="\${libdir}/libSDLmain.a \${libdir}/libSDL.a $EXTRA_LDFLAGS"
;;
*)
SDL_STATIC_LIBS="$SDL_LIBS $EXTRA_LDFLAGS"
;;
esac



Then traced it back to revison Revision: 6303 and bug https://bugzilla.libsdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1429
I would still like to build statically with this option. I mean, I can just manually edit sdl2-config but I want to understand why you removed it.
As per the bug report I don't understand how --libs could be affected by this. But then I hardly understand everything around code Smile


Also you might need to change docs/README-macosx.md accordingly.

And Cocoa only. No carbon anymore.

Joseph

It's set somewhere else in configure.in these days, as the carbon framework is still needed (SDL_cocoakeyboards.m and SDL_cocoamodes.m).
OS X and sdl2-config --static-libs
John
Guest
Post Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2015 8:38 am
It works if you built the static libs when you built SDL, and the shared libs
are not present in that dir. Roughly,

## build SDL2 like this
$ ./configure --disable-shared --prefix=foo

## link your app with this
$ foo/bin/sdl2-config --static-libs










On 01/12/2015 07:45 PM, Dominus wrote:
Quote:

Joseph Carter wrote:
Quote:
On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 11:44:03PM +0000, Dominus wrote:

Quote:

Dominus wrote:

Quote:
Hi all,

I'm used to building some project snapshots with static libs and used to get those for SDL 1.2x via "sdl-config --static-libs".

Now that one of them has been partially ported to SDL2 I found that "sdl2-config --static-libs" does NOT return the static libs of SDL2.

When I compared the two configs I found that

- sdl-config --static-libs has the lines

Code:
--static-libs)
# --libs|--static-libs)
echo -L${exec_prefix}/lib ${libdir}/libSDL.a -lm -liconv -Wl,manyframeworks



- sdl2-config --static-libs has the lines

Code:
--static-libs)
# --libs|--static-libs)
echo -L${exec_prefix}/lib ${libdir}/libSDLmain.a ${libdir}/libSDL.a -Wl,manyframeworks



Further digging led me to configure.in which is missing the special OS X case that SDL 1.2x had:

Code:
case "$ARCH" in
macosx)
if test x$enable_video = xyes -a x$enable_video_cocoa = xyes; then
SDL_LIBS="$SDL_LIBS -Wl,-framework,Cocoa"
fi
if test x$enable_video = xyes -a x$enable_video_carbon = xyes; then
SDL_LIBS="$SDL_LIBS -Wl,-framework,Carbon"
fi
# Evil hack to allow static linking on Mac OS X
SDL_STATIC_LIBS="\${libdir}/libSDLmain.a \${libdir}/libSDL.a $EXTRA_LDFLAGS"
;;
*)
SDL_STATIC_LIBS="$SDL_LIBS $EXTRA_LDFLAGS"
;;
esac



Then traced it back to revison Revision: 6303 and bug https://bugzilla.libsdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1429
I would still like to build statically with this option. I mean, I can just manually edit sdl2-config but I want to understand why you removed it.
As per the bug report I don't understand how --libs could be affected by this. But then I hardly understand everything around code :)


Also you might need to change docs/README-macosx.md accordingly.

And Cocoa only. No carbon anymore.

Joseph

It's set somewhere else in configure.in these days, as the carbon framework is still needed (SDL_cocoakeyboards.m and SDL_cocoamodes.m).







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Re: OS X and sdl2-config --static-libs
Dominus


Joined: 13 Oct 2009
Posts: 127
Post Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2015 9:01 am
Yes, that should work, but it's not practical to not have the shared lib files :(

John wrote:
It works if you built the static libs when you built SDL, and the shared libs
are not present in that dir. Roughly,

## build SDL2 like this
$ ./configure --disable-shared --prefix=foo

## link your app with this
$ foo/bin/sdl2-config --static-libs










On 01/12/2015 07:45 PM, Dominus wrote:
Quote:

Joseph Carter wrote:
Quote:
On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 11:44:03PM +0000, Dominus wrote:

Quote:

Dominus wrote:

Quote:
Hi all,

I'm used to building some project snapshots with static libs and used to get those for SDL 1.2x via "sdl-config --static-libs".

Now that one of them has been partially ported to SDL2 I found that "sdl2-config --static-libs" does NOT return the static libs of SDL2.

When I compared the two configs I found that

- sdl-config --static-libs has the lines

Code:
--static-libs)
# --libs|--static-libs)
echo -L${exec_prefix}/lib ${libdir}/libSDL.a -lm -liconv -Wl,manyframeworks



- sdl2-config --static-libs has the lines

Code:
--static-libs)
# --libs|--static-libs)
echo -L${exec_prefix}/lib ${libdir}/libSDLmain.a ${libdir}/libSDL.a -Wl,manyframeworks



Further digging led me to configure.in which is missing the special OS X case that SDL 1.2x had:

Code:
case "$ARCH" in
macosx)
if test x$enable_video = xyes -a x$enable_video_cocoa = xyes; then
SDL_LIBS="$SDL_LIBS -Wl,-framework,Cocoa"
fi
if test x$enable_video = xyes -a x$enable_video_carbon = xyes; then
SDL_LIBS="$SDL_LIBS -Wl,-framework,Carbon"
fi
# Evil hack to allow static linking on Mac OS X
SDL_STATIC_LIBS="\${libdir}/libSDLmain.a \${libdir}/libSDL.a $EXTRA_LDFLAGS"
;;
*)
SDL_STATIC_LIBS="$SDL_LIBS $EXTRA_LDFLAGS"
;;
esac



Then traced it back to revison Revision: 6303 and bug https://bugzilla.libsdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1429
I would still like to build statically with this option. I mean, I can just manually edit sdl2-config but I want to understand why you removed it.
As per the bug report I don't understand how --libs could be affected by this. But then I hardly understand everything around code :)


Also you might need to change docs/README-macosx.md accordingly.

And Cocoa only. No carbon anymore.

Joseph

It's set somewhere else in configure.in these days, as the carbon framework is still needed (SDL_cocoakeyboards.m and SDL_cocoamodes.m).







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Re: OS X and sdl2-config --static-libs
Dominus


Joined: 13 Oct 2009
Posts: 127
Post Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2015 9:26 am
Yes, that should work, but it's not practical to not have the shared lib files :(

John wrote:
It works if you built the static libs when you built SDL, and the shared libs
are not present in that dir. Roughly,

## build SDL2 like this
$ ./configure --disable-shared --prefix=foo

## link your app with this
$ foo/bin/sdl2-config --static-libs










On 01/12/2015 07:45 PM, Dominus wrote:
Quote:

Joseph Carter wrote:
Quote:
On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 11:44:03PM +0000, Dominus wrote:

Quote:

Dominus wrote:

Quote:
Hi all,

I'm used to building some project snapshots with static libs and used to get those for SDL 1.2x via "sdl-config --static-libs".

Now that one of them has been partially ported to SDL2 I found that "sdl2-config --static-libs" does NOT return the static libs of SDL2.

When I compared the two configs I found that

- sdl-config --static-libs has the lines

Code:
--static-libs)
# --libs|--static-libs)
echo -L${exec_prefix}/lib ${libdir}/libSDL.a -lm -liconv -Wl,manyframeworks



- sdl2-config --static-libs has the lines

Code:
--static-libs)
# --libs|--static-libs)
echo -L${exec_prefix}/lib ${libdir}/libSDLmain.a ${libdir}/libSDL.a -Wl,manyframeworks



Further digging led me to configure.in which is missing the special OS X case that SDL 1.2x had:

Code:
case "$ARCH" in
macosx)
if test x$enable_video = xyes -a x$enable_video_cocoa = xyes; then
SDL_LIBS="$SDL_LIBS -Wl,-framework,Cocoa"
fi
if test x$enable_video = xyes -a x$enable_video_carbon = xyes; then
SDL_LIBS="$SDL_LIBS -Wl,-framework,Carbon"
fi
# Evil hack to allow static linking on Mac OS X
SDL_STATIC_LIBS="\${libdir}/libSDLmain.a \${libdir}/libSDL.a $EXTRA_LDFLAGS"
;;
*)
SDL_STATIC_LIBS="$SDL_LIBS $EXTRA_LDFLAGS"
;;
esac



Then traced it back to revison Revision: 6303 and bug https://bugzilla.libsdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1429
I would still like to build statically with this option. I mean, I can just manually edit sdl2-config but I want to understand why you removed it.
As per the bug report I don't understand how --libs could be affected by this. But then I hardly understand everything around code :)


Also you might need to change docs/README-macosx.md accordingly.

And Cocoa only. No carbon anymore.

Joseph

It's set somewhere else in configure.in these days, as the carbon framework is still needed (SDL_cocoakeyboards.m and SDL_cocoamodes.m).







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OS X and sdl2-config --static-libs
John
Guest
Post Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2015 11:31 pm
A simple fix is to cut out the middlemen (sdl2-config and autoconf) from your
build, and just link directly to /prefix/lib/libSDL.a or libSDL.so as you like.

Anotehr simple fix is to post-process the output of `sdl2-config` to replace
-lSDL2 with /prefix/lib/SDL2.a as needed.



On 01/14/2015 04:26 AM, Dominus wrote:
Quote:
Yes, that should work, but it's not practical to not have the shared lib files :(


John wrote:
Quote:
It works if you built the static libs when you built SDL, and the shared libs
are not present in that dir. Roughly,

## build SDL2 like this
$ ./configure --disable-shared --prefix=foo

## link your app with this
$ foo/bin/sdl2-config --static-libs










On 01/12/2015 07:45 PM, Dominus wrote:

Quote:

Joseph Carter wrote:

Quote:
On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 11:44:03PM +0000, Dominus wrote:


Quote:

Dominus wrote:


Quote:
Hi all,

I'm used to building some project snapshots with static libs and used to get those for SDL 1.2x via "sdl-config --static-libs".

Now that one of them has been partially ported to SDL2 I found that "sdl2-config --static-libs" does NOT return the static libs of SDL2.

When I compared the two configs I found that

- sdl-config --static-libs has the lines

Code:
--static-libs)
# --libs|--static-libs)
echo -L${exec_prefix}/lib ${libdir}/libSDL.a -lm -liconv -Wl,manyframeworks



- sdl2-config --static-libs has the lines

Code:
--static-libs)
# --libs|--static-libs)
echo -L${exec_prefix}/lib ${libdir}/libSDLmain.a ${libdir}/libSDL.a -Wl,manyframeworks



Further digging led me to configure.in which is missing the special OS X case that SDL 1.2x had:

Code:
case "$ARCH" in
macosx)
if test x$enable_video = xyes -a x$enable_video_cocoa = xyes; then
SDL_LIBS="$SDL_LIBS -Wl,-framework,Cocoa"
fi
if test x$enable_video = xyes -a x$enable_video_carbon = xyes; then
SDL_LIBS="$SDL_LIBS -Wl,-framework,Carbon"
fi
# Evil hack to allow static linking on Mac OS X
SDL_STATIC_LIBS="\${libdir}/libSDLmain.a \${libdir}/libSDL.a $EXTRA_LDFLAGS"
;;
*)
SDL_STATIC_LIBS="$SDL_LIBS $EXTRA_LDFLAGS"
;;
esac



Then traced it back to revison Revision: 6303 and bug https://bugzilla.libsdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1429
I would still like to build statically with this option. I mean, I can just manually edit sdl2-config but I want to understand why you removed it.
As per the bug report I don't understand how --libs could be affected by this. But then I hardly understand everything around code :)


Also you might need to change docs/README-macosx.md accordingly.

And Cocoa only. No carbon anymore.

Joseph

It's set somewhere else in configure.in these days, as the carbon framework is still needed (SDL_cocoakeyboards.m and SDL_cocoamodes.m).







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