[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] qwt: compile as a static lib if QT_SHARED is not selected

[Richard Genoud <richard.genoud@gmail.com>]

2015-01-26 12:21 GMT+01:00 Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>:
> Dear Richard Genoud,
>
> On Mon, 26 Jan 2015 10:34:34 +0100, Richard Genoud wrote:
>
>> > I agree that it would be cleaner, but the reason the explicit QT_SHARED
>> > stuff was added was afaik a lot of systems only needed Qt in a single
>> > application / that application only used a subset of the Qt
>> > functionality, so having a static libQt while everything else was shared
>> > was quite a big win in size / startup time.
>>
>> yes, that's exactly my case. I've got one single Qt application, and Qt
>> is quite huge, so making it static saves a lot of space.
>> I didn't trying to compile with BR2_STATIC_LIBS=y, but I guess that my
>> rootfs will be much bigger.
>
> Probably. Unfortunately with kconfig, we cannot easily add one option
> for debug symbols, static/dynamic linking to each package. It would add
> gazillions of options.
>
> One possibility would be to have one global string option that you
> could fill in with a space-separated list of packages that you want to
> be built statically, even if the rest of the system is built
> dynamically.
Indeed, a generic solution like that would be great.
The solution is not straight-forward though. (but as I'm not a
buildroot-internals guru, I may be missing something)
What I see is that the option
BR2_LIST_OF_STATIC_PACKAGES="qwt qt busybox"
Will define :
QWT_FORCE_STATIC=y
QT_FORCE_STATIC=y
BUSYBOX_FORCE_STATIC=y

And the BR2_STATIC_LIB=y will define pkg-name_FORCE_STATIC=y for all packages

And then, in every single package file we'll have to change:
s/\<BR2_STATIC_LIB\>/pkg-name_FORCE_STATIC/g

but I'm really not sure this is the best way.

regards,
Richard.