Re: Building libvirt library without libvirtd or virsh

On Thu, Oct 08, 2020 at 09:38:22AM +0200, Martin Kletzander wrote: Correct, using that option you can disable libvirtd which should reduce some dependencies but there is no option to disable virsh. We can possibly introduce an option to disable libvirt clients but that would save you only readline as a dependency which you can disable by using -Dreadline=disabled . If you want to do a minimal build of libvirt you can run meson with --auto-features=disabled which will disable most of the features and you can explicitly enable only the things that you want to use (this is what most distributions are doing when building packages). I just noticed that there are some build options where this doesn't work so I'll post patches to fix them. The last part I have to ask what do you mean by "without dynamic lib dependencies"? If you mean that libvirt.so should be statically linked that is not currently possible. We would have to add option to make it possible and update all dependency() and find_library() calls in all meson.build files to look only for static libraries. In addition I think we should add build options which would allow users to disable tests, documentation, examples and other bits that end-users don't have to use. Pavel