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>