Build with statically linked libs?

[Andoramb]

Describe the issue Is it possible to build (for example) the sil-kit-registry binary with statically linked libraries, so it can run standalone on different environments?

To Reproduce So far I have added the following lines to the cmake instruction:

-D CMAKE_FIND_LIBRARY_SUFFIXES=".a" \
-D BUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF \

Expected behavior When I try to run the compiled binary on an other OS (same arch as origin) it still gives missing library related errors:

./sil-kit-registry: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.29' not found (required by ./sil-kit-registry)
./sil-kit-registry: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.30' not found (required by ./sil-kit-registry)
./sil-kit-registry: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6: version `CXXABI_1.3.13' not found (required by ./sil-kit-registry)
./sil-kit-registry: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.33' not found (required by ./sil-kit-registry)
./sil-kit-registry: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.34' not found (required by ./sil-kit-registry)
./sil-kit-registry: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.32' not found (required by ./sil-kit-registry)

Your Environment (please complete the following information):

• OS version and platform: *same for both OS-es From uname -a:
  Linux DESKTOP microsoft-standard-WSL2 #1 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
• Compiler and CMake version: Overall the whole cmake command looks like this:

  cmake -D SILKIT_BUILD_DOCS=OFF \
    -D SILKIT_BUILD_TESTS=OFF \
    -D SILKIT_BUILD_DEMOS=OFF \
    -D SILKIT_BUILD_UTILITIES=ON \
    -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/sil-kit \
    -D CMAKE_FIND_LIBRARY_SUFFIXES=".a" \
    -D BUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF \
    .. 
  cmake --build . -j 4
  cmake --build . --target install

• SIL Kit Version: Doesn't really matter
• Please include a description of the SIL Kit participants, including which controllers are created and the configuration applied to them: N/A atm

[VDanielEdwards]

Hello @Andoramb, we do not support linking SIL Kit as a static library, and neither do we support statically linking the utility executables.

Thank you for your message and happy holidays!

[Andoramb]

Alright,

Good to know! Thanks for the quick answer. Same to you 👍