Unable to build static library during building
Categories
(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
People
(Reporter: joseph.krejchi, Unassigned)
Details
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/127.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Steps to reproduce:
I downloaded the latest version of the Firefox source code (128) and am working on a project where I need to statically compile the entire source code-- meaning no dynamic linking anywhere. According to the documentation, building a static library is as simple as appending "Library('LibName')" to the end of a moz.build file for a given library and then building the normal way (using mach build)
Actual results:
No static libraries ('.a' files) were generated, and the final executable and libraries are dynamically linked
Expected results:
A static library with the specified name should have been generated, presumably in the same directory as its associated moz.build file.
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Comment 1•2 years ago
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The severity field is not set for this bug.
:Sylvestre, could you have a look please?
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Updated•2 years ago
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Comment 2•2 years ago
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The severity field is not set for this bug.
:ahochheiden, could you have a look please?
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Updated•2 years ago
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Comment 3•2 years ago
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The build system has been avoiding to create static libraries since bug 584474. There's a way out with https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/1e8cec3727d6e09f4af41bb3d202b7a4c326ed84/python/mozbuild/mozbuild/frontend/context.py#2573-2578, the name of which is not intuitive for historical reasons, but I can't advise you do that, because many things are actually expected shared libraries. Some of the libraries under security/nss are expected to be loadable objects, which forces nspr to be loadable objects as well. Codecs are expected to be loadable objects as well, and for licensing reasons, the lgpllibs library is expected to be a shared library too. I think there are more cases like these.
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