Because I want my binaries to run on older distributions, I decided to build a statically linked binary.
My application depends on libhid-hidraw and through that, on libudev.
I have the development packages installed:
sudo apt install libudev-dev libhidapi-dev
When I try to link, I get this error:
cc -g -Wall -Wextra -static daemon/turboledzd.c -o daemon/turboledzd -lhidapi-hidraw -ludev
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ludev
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
On my system, there is a libhidapi-hidraw.a
file present:
$ dpkg -S hidraw.a
libhidapi-dev:amd64: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libhidapi-hidraw.a
But no such static library for udev:
$ dpkg -S libudev.
libudev1:i386: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libudev.so.1
libudev-dev:amd64: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig/libudev.pc
python3-pyudev: /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pyudev/_ctypeslib/libudev.py
libudev1:amd64: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libudev.so.1.7.1
libudev-dev:amd64: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libudev.so
libudev1:amd64: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libudev.so.1
libudev-dev:amd64: /usr/include/libudev.h
libudev1:i386: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libudev.so.1.7.1
libudev-dev:amd64: /usr/share/man/man3/libudev.3.gz
Which Ubuntu package will contain the libudev.a
library?