Statically-link libwebp?

[tidbyt]

Statically-link libwebp?

[snorremd]

I tried installing pixlet on my Ubuntu 22.04 distribution yesterday, but Ubuntu ships a different version of libwebp lib than what pixlet expects. So I too think hard linking would be nice and a valuable change for the Tidbyt app developers and users that run Linux.

[kudos]

I'm having this same problem on Fedora too.

[betterengineering]

Hey folks! So sorry for the delay on this issue. This should be resolved as of v0.22.4. Please let me know if you have any additional issues!

Issue

When I had added ARM support for Linux, I thought for sure the produced binaries were statically linked. It turns out, my build command was correct, but there was a string matching issue in my shell script so the correct build command wasn't being called 😭 . I resolved this in #459 when adding support for Windows.

Tests

I tested this by creating a fresh digital ocean instance and pulling the produced binaries:

root@ubuntu-s-1vcpu-2gb-amd-sfo3-01:~# curl -LO https://github.com/tidbyt/pixlet/releases/download/v0.22.4/pixlet_0.22.4_linux_amd64.tar.gz
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0
100 14.9M  100 14.9M    0     0   9.9M      0  0:00:01  0:00:01 --:--:-- 14.1M
root@ubuntu-s-1vcpu-2gb-amd-sfo3-01:~# tar -xvf pixlet_0.22.4_linux_amd64.tar.gz
LICENSE.txt
README.md
pixlet
root@ubuntu-s-1vcpu-2gb-amd-sfo3-01:~# chmod +x pixlet
root@ubuntu-s-1vcpu-2gb-amd-sfo3-01:~# ./pixlet version
Pixlet version: v0.22.4
root@ubuntu-s-1vcpu-2gb-amd-sfo3-01:~# curl -LO https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tidbyt/pixlet/main/examples/bitcoin.star
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100  1371  100  1371    0     0   7211      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--  7215
root@ubuntu-s-1vcpu-2gb-amd-sfo3-01:~# ./pixlet render bitcoin.star --gif -m 10
[bitcoin.star] Miss! Calling CoinDesk API.
root@ubuntu-s-1vcpu-2gb-amd-sfo3-01:~# exit
logout
Connection to 147.182.224.167 closed.