should use sdl-config for static build not pkg-config

[Kenneth Salerno]

In the configure script when a user wants to compile a static QEMU and enable SDL support (i.e. ./configure --static --enable-sdl):

pkg-config does not have an option "--static-libs". For correct results (to find the static archive libSDL.a) you need to use sdl-config --static-libs.

This is how I get it to work for me anyway:

diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 2d62d12..3de4c9b 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -1548,7 +1548,7 @@ int main( void ) { return SDL_Init (SDL_INIT_VIDEO); }
 EOF
   sdl_cflags=`$sdlconfig --cflags 2> /dev/null`
   if test "$static" = "yes" ; then
- sdl_libs=`$sdlconfig --static-libs 2>/dev/null`
+ sdl_libs=`${SDL_CONFIG-${cross_prefix}sdl-config} --static-libs`
   else
     sdl_libs=`$sdlconfig --libs 2> /dev/null`
   fi

[Kenneth Salerno (kennethsalerno)]

Sorry, I stripped out the "2>/dev/null" when I was debugging and forgot to add it back in:

diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 2d62d12..3de4c9b 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -1548,7 +1548,7 @@ int main( void ) { return SDL_Init (SDL_INIT_VIDEO); }
 EOF
   sdl_cflags=`$sdlconfig --cflags 2> /dev/null`
   if test "$static" = "yes" ; then
- sdl_libs=`$sdlconfig --static-libs 2>/dev/null`
+ sdl_libs=`${SDL_CONFIG-${cross_prefix}sdl-config} --static-libs 2>/dev/null`
   else
     sdl_libs=`$sdlconfig --libs 2> /dev/null`
   fi

[Stefan Weil (ubuntu-weilnetz)]

pkg-config supports --static, and QEMU uses it.

Please try whether

   pkg-config --libs --static sdl

gives the correct flags with your distribution. If not, that distribution is buggy.

[Kenneth Salerno (kennethsalerno)]

you are correct, can we switch the parameter from "--static-libs" to "--libs --static" ?

diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 2d62d12..b0cedd2 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -1548,7 +1548,7 @@ int main( void ) { return SDL_Init (SDL_INIT_VIDEO); }
 EOF
   sdl_cflags=`$sdlconfig --cflags 2> /dev/null`
   if test "$static" = "yes" ; then
- sdl_libs=`$sdlconfig --static-libs 2>/dev/null`
+ sdl_libs=`$sdlconfig --libs --static 2>/dev/null`
   else
     sdl_libs=`$sdlconfig --libs 2> /dev/null`
   fi

[Thomas Huth (th-huth)]

Finally fixed here:
http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commitdiff;h=5f37e6d4a7b22ccf1bb8fa4