libbluetooth.a file is missing from libbluetooth-dev package

[Sancho]

Binary package hint: libbluetooth-dev

I am trying to compile a software for emulating BTkeyboard - xkbd-bthid.
This requires libbluetooth.a file, which is missing from the -dev package for some reason.

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

I don't see this file anywhere in the list of generated files during a build. Are you absolutely positive this is what you need?

[Removed by request (removed67550)]

I just managed to compile this xkbd-bthid by replacing libbluetooth.a with /usr/lib/libbluetooth.so from xkbd-0.8.15_bthid/src/makefile. Let's see, if this works - beware that the package does not install to /usr/local. This package requires some other modification, since it does not follow the fsstnd rules used in standard distros. Instead, it has been made for maemo - do not mess up your installation.

Now, I try to get this weirdo working.

[Baptiste Mille-Mathias (bmillemathias)]

Okay, so ubuntu don't ship *.a file in dev, so I suggest to build the package yourself to ship the *.a file inside.

[Konrad Zapałowicz (kzapalowicz)]

This is reported against an old version of Ubuntu and many things has changed since then. Because of that we won't fix this issue however if this behavior repeats on a modern version please fill a bug report against it and we will take it from there.