Static build fails

[libimobiledevice]

Static build fails

[nikias]

Why are you building static? This project and all of its dependencies are not supposed to be built statically.

[MarSoft]

Static building is sometimes useful, especially when you want to make an easily redistributable cross-platform tool.
Here is my current approach in achieving it. Did not yet test for runtime errors, but linking succeeds:
You'll need to make several changes to libimobiledevice sources:

1. In common/thread.c, remove all contents;
2. In common/thread.h, prepend each function definition with extern keyword;
3. This will break building binary tools, so disable them: in Makefile.am, remove tools and docs from SUBDIRS, and remove EXTRA_DIST line.
4. Now run ./autogen.sh --enable-shared=no and other flags you may need (probably you'll want to use custom --prefix).

[voltagex]

@MarSoft are you able to provide a patch for this?

[MarSoft]

@voltagex, here is the script I use on libimobiledevice/libimobiledevice@798601d to prepare it for static build:

	# remove code for thread funcs which is duplcated with usbmuxd
	cat /dev/null > common/thread.c
	# convert thread funcs to extern ones
	sed -i common/thread.h -e 's/^\([iv][no][ti]\)/extern \1/'
	# don't build tools (and docs), only lib itself
	sed -i Makefile.am -e 's/ tools docs$$//; s/^EXTRA_DIST =.*//'
	# apply fix from libplist#114
	sed -i src/idevice.c -e 's/WIN32/DLL_EXPORT/'

Newer commits don't work for me because of socket stuff change introduced in libimobiledevice/libimobiledevice@2c83cae.