Re: Building a statically linked copy of Lua

[Matthew Frazier <leafstormrush@...>]

On 04/08/2011 07:53 AM, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo wrote:
> > - How would I build a statically-linked Lua interpreter binary?
>
> That's what the standard Makefile does. If you mean *completely* static,
> ie, containing all systems libraries, then add -static to the link flags.
>
> > - How could I build a library (in this case, luaposix) into the
> > interpreter such that it could be required without loading the extra .so?
>
> Edit linit.c and add the library in Makefile.
>
> > - Would it still be possible to load shared libraries from such an
> > executable, or would I have to build everything into it?
>
> You need to link the interpreter using -Wl,-E (or equivalent magic)
> to export the Lua API symbols.

Thanks for the advice. It took me a couple of hours and probably at 
least thirty builds, but I got it working - you can download the tarball 
I made at http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5948578/lua-static-5.1.4.tar.gz.

I got lua-posix and the static building to work independently of each 
other, which is nice. The static has only been tested on Linux though. 
The only issues I encountered were a few warnings about some functions 
in lposix. (I included a README-STATIC describing what I did, so that 
anyone who tries this in the future would have an idea of what to do.) 
The next step is to use it for stuff ;-).
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Regards, Matthew "LeafStorm" Frazier
http://leafstorm.us/