Provide static binaries.

[lslvr]

Are there chances of having wmutils compiled as a single-file binary, in a similar fashion to busybox?

[z3bra]

On Jan 17, Luis Lavaire wrote:

Are there chances of having wmutils compiled as a single-file binary, in a similar fashion to busybox?

This is an interresting idea. That would be a major redesign though, so we'll consider it first.

[lslvr]

Thanks for your response. I guessed it could involve major changes to the code (just guessed, as I'm not a C programmer). One thing that I like a lot about busybox is the compact size of the binary, which is very helpful for embedded systems.

[dcat]

this is something that shouldn't be committed, at least not to the master branch.

however, I wrote a script that will statically compile all of them in to a single binary called wmbox.

#!/bin/sh

CC=cc

rm -f wmbox.c wmbox
SRC="`ls *.c`"

for i in $SRC
do
    sed "s/^main/${i%.c}_main/" $i | $CC -c -xc -o ${i%c}o -
    echo extern int ${i%.c}_main '(int, char **);' >>wmbox.c
done

cat << EOF >>wmbox.c
#include <string.h>
#include <stdio.h>
int main(int argc, char **argv) {
    argc--; *argv++;
    if (!argc)
        return 0;
EOF

for i in $SRC
do
    [ $i = "util.c" -o $i = "wmbox.c" ] && continue
    echo "  if (!strcmp(*argv, \"${i%.c}\")) return ${i%.c}_main(argc, argv);" >>wmbox.c
done

echo 'return 1;}' >>wmbox.c

${CC} -c wmbox.c
${CC} -o wmbox *.o -static -lxcb -lxcb-util -pthread -lX11  -lXau -lXdmcp

rm -f *.o

[lslvr]

Thank you very much, @dcat! I'll keep this on a fork.

[lslvr]

The binary can be found on Github releases, just in case somebody else is interested on it. They're generated on Travis CI.