static building dbus CMakeFile.txt error and compiling examples against static gattlib

[saad-s]

When building with cmake -DGATTLIB_SHARED_LIB=NO .. gives this error

CMake Error at dbus/CMakeLists.txt:127 (install):
  install TARGETS given no ARCHIVE DESTINATION for static library target
  "gattlib".

modifying dbus/CMakeLists.txt;127 to this solves the error and generates libgattlib.a

if(GATTLIB_SHARED_LIB)
  install(TARGETS gattlib LIBRARY DESTINATION ${CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR})
else()
  install(TARGETS gattlib ARCHIVE DESTINATION ${CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR})
endif()

I added following in ble_scan example's CMakeLists.txt for static building

SET(CMAKE_FIND_LIBRARY_SUFFIXES ".a")
SET(BUILD_SHARED_LIBS OFF)
SET(CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS "-static")

and it gives undefined reference to... errors, I've added all dev libs like gio-2.0, gobject etc and it reduced errors but now its asking for libsystem and libmount etc..

My question is, is there a proper way to build static executable so I can move it to my docker image without installing dev libs in my image ?

[saad-s]

adding this list of libs generates a statically linked binary / executable

-lgattlib \
-lglib-2.0 -lpcre \
-ldbus-1 -lpthread \
-lgio-2.0 -lz -lresolv -lselinux -lmount -lgmodule-2.0  -ldl -lgobject-2.0 -lffi -lglib-2.0 -lpcre \
-lgmodule-2.0 -ldl -lglib-2.0 -lpcre \
-lgobject-2.0 -lffi -lglib-2.0 -lpcre \
-ldbus-glib-1 -ldbus-1 -lgobject-2.0 -lffi -lglib-2.0 -lpcre -lmount -lblkid -luuid 

a better way could be to link statically against specific dev libs and dynamically link against common libs using

-Wl,-Bstatic and -Wl,-Bdynamic

but that's a task for some other day.

close the issue please