Wireshark · Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Unable to compile static build of TShark on Fedora 7

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sep 3, 2007, at 4:07 PM, Barry Gould wrote:

> Hi, with WireShark 0.99.6, I am having trouble building TShark  
> statically.
>
> If I do this:
> ./configure --enable-static --disable-wireshark
> make
>
> I get an error about -lgmodule
>
> However, I seem to have the appropriate libraries installed:
> $ locate gmodule
> /lib/libgmodule-2.0.so.0
> /lib/libgmodule-2.0.so.0.1200.13
> /usr/include/glib-1.2/gmodule.h
> /usr/include/glib-2.0/gmodule.h
> /usr/lib/libgmodule-1.2.so.0
> /usr/lib/libgmodule-1.2.so.0.0.10
> /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so
> /usr/lib/libgmodule.so
> /usr/lib/pkgconfig/gmodule-2.0.pc
> /usr/lib/pkgconfig/gmodule-export-2.0.pc
> /usr/lib/pkgconfig/gmodule-no-export-2.0.pc
> /usr/lib/pkgconfig/gmodule.pc
> /usr/lib/python2.5/lib-dynload/rgbimgmodule.so
> /usr/lib/python2.5/lib-dynload/timingmodule.so
> /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/ixf86configmodule.so

Yes, but there's no libgmodule.a - i.e., no static library.

What's more, if Linux's notion of a static build is anything like  
SunOS 4.x's and 5.x's, it might not be possible for there to *be* a  
libgmodule.a; the gmodule stuff is for run-time loading of modules  
(such as plugins), and a fully-static binary might not have the run- 
time linker available.

If so, you will have to configure with --without-plugins.

> If I do this:
> ./configure --enable-static --disable-wireshark --without-krb5
> --without-ssl --disable-text2pcap --enable-dftest=no --enable- 
> randpct=no
> --enable-ipv6=no --enable-threads=no --without-portaudio --disable- 
> gtk2
> --without-lua --enable-dftest=no --enable-static=yes --with-net- 
> snmp=no
> --with-ucd-snmp=no --without-adns --disable-gtkplus --disable-gmodule
> --disable-glib

--disable-glib?  Good luck - Wireshark and TShark use GLib all over  
the place.

I'm not sure there's any such option in any case; note that configure  
scripts don't check whether the string after --enable or --disable is  
valid:

	$ ./configure --disable-magic-fingers
	checking build system type... powerpc-apple-darwin{censored}
	checking host system type... powerpc-apple-darwin{censored}
	checking target system type... powerpc-apple-darwin{censored}
	checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c

		...