Re^5: Compiling C program with a Static Perl

Thanks, it looks promising. If I understood correctly, I build a static perl with -Uusedl and my dependencies with -Dextras so that they're statically built also. I've just tried to put the YAML::XS module in-Dextras and it didn't build with some mysterious "Failed" CPAN message. So I stuck YAML::XS into the ext/ dir before building it and it worked...!

...well, apparently. I'm still getting this error when I test to see if my new static Perl has the module linked to it:

perl -MYAML::XS -E ''
Can't load module YAML::XS::LibYAML, dynamic loading not available in 
+this perl.
  (You may need to build a new perl executable which either supports
  dynamic loading or has the YAML::XS::LibYAML module statically linke
+d into it.)
 at localperl/lib/5.24.2/YAML/XS.pm line 20.
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...but I'm pretty sure I saw LibYAML being compiled during make (I did make LINKTYPE=static actually). Why is my static perl trying to Dynaload the module??

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Re^6: Compiling C program with a Static Perl by syphilis (Archbishop) on Sep 04, 2017 at 01:57 UTC
I did make LINKTYPE=static actually I believe you should run `perl Makefile.PL LINKTYPE=static` and follow that with a plain `make` command. See the ExtUtils::MakeMaker documentation Cheers, Rob	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^7: Compiling C program with a Static Perl by rodd (Scribe) on Sep 04, 2017 at 07:14 UTC
There was no Makefile.PL, I'm referring to the Perl source make, the one that comes after Configure.	[reply]
Re^8: Compiling C program with a Static Perl by syphilis (Archbishop) on Sep 04, 2017 at 11:35 UTC
I'm referring to the Perl source make Aaah ... however, I don't think the LINKTYPE=static argument does anything. It's a long time since I've built perl statically, and I'm a bit hazy on the details. So I just tried a build of 5.26.0 configured with '-des -Uusedl -Dprefix=/home/me/perl526-static'. However, that fails at the 'make' stage with: libperl.a(regexec.o): In function `Perl__is_grapheme': regexec.c:(.text+0x12b70): multiple definition of `Perl__is_grapheme' lib/auto/re/re.a(re_exec.o):re_exec.c:(.text+0x1c020): first defined h +ere collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status makefile:369: recipe for target 'perl' failed make: *** [perl] Error 1 [download] Have I missed something in my Configure args ? (Running 'make LINKTYPE=static' makes no difference.) What is your 'perl -V' output ? When I finish writing this, I'll try current blead - and send a post to p5p if it also fails to build statically. Having had a read through the INSTALL file, it seems to me that what you've done should have worked ... but clearly hasn't wrt YAML::XS. Do any of the other ext modules throw the same error when you try to load them ? Try re-building YAML::XS from fresh source with: `perl Makefile.PL LINKTYPE=static make perl -Mblib -MYAML::XS -E 1` [download] Does that last command then run without error ? UPDATE: Building perl statically from current git source (commit 97fcda7...) works fine for me, with all tests passing. For some reason 'make test' doesn't run the ext/YAML-LibYAML test suite And I get the same results as rodd. It makes no difference to the error whether YAML::XS is built with perl (in the ext directory) or built separately after the static perl has been built and installed. I'm thinking that there's a bug in the way that YAML::XS is being dealt with. The INSTALL file does state this: <quote> If you unpack any additional extensions in the ext/ directory before running Configure, then Configure will offer to build those additional extensions as well. Most users probably shouldn't have to do this -- it is usually easier to build additional extensions later after perl has been installed. However, if you wish to have those additional extensions statically linked into the perl binary, then this offers a convenient way to do that in one step. </quote> UPDATE 2: There's a bit more to it than I expected. I was able to get a loadable YAML::XS installed as per follows: `cd YAML-LibYAML-0.65 perl Makefile.PL make perl make -f Makefile.aperl inst_perl MAP_TARGET=perl make -f Makefile.aperl map_clean` [download] Cheers, Rob	[reply] [d/l] [select]