Re: Building libvirt library without libvirtd or virsh
On Thu, Oct 08, 2020 at 11:18:08AM -0700, Román González wrote:
>
> 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.
When you happen to do this, can you share a link where I can download the
patches?
They are now pushed to master branch.
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.
>
Uh, I wonder what the meson option
default_library shared
> [shared, static, both]
>
is for?
You can read more about it here [1] but basically it applies to
libraries build within the project. In libvirt all internal libraries
are build as static.
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.
>
That makes sense.
I did not introduce option to disable examples because that is probably
pointless but there are already pushed new options for documentation and
tests.
> 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
I need to correct myself as this statement was not true. RPM packages
use --auto-features=enabled by default.
Pavel
[1] <https://mesonbuild.com/Reference-manual.html#library>
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