Re: [flashrom] help with static or standalone binary compile instructions

[Marcos Felipe Rasia de Mello]

2012/6/30 Steven Williams :
> I had a quick and probably dumb question, where in 'make' can I change the
> parameters so flashrom will compile as a static or stand alone binary? I
> found an old email where Gianluigi Tiesi
> says(http://www.mail-archive.com/[e-mail]/msg05104.html) to add
> -static to the end of the cc list in his example but I cannot find anything
> that resembles it in the current make file. I looked at the instructions for
> the DOS compile but I was not sure if I needed to use this method and if I
> could even add all the lib headers required to run flashrom. I am trying to
> run flashrom on a thin client so I can install an updated version of Linux.
> Right now they only run a custom Linux build that uses a 2.4 kernel and I
> would like to have the system open to run an updated kernel and software. I
> do believe a bootstrap or lilo configuration is in place but I will not know
> for sure to modify it until I have the ability to read and write to the
> bios. It would be great if this program was more standalone centric since a
> full blown os is not always available.
>
> So some pointers or advice would be awesome, thanks in advance!

I'm using this and it works fine.

--- Makefile.orig	2012-01-13 09:19:59.388190891 -0200
+++ Makefile	2012-01-13 09:21:49.489193337 -0200
@@ -531 +531 @@
-	$(CC) $(LDFLAGS) -o $(PROGRAM)$(EXEC_SUFFIX) $(OBJS) $(FEATURE_LIBS) $(LIBS)
+	$(CC) $(LDFLAGS) -o $(PROGRAM)$(EXEC_SUFFIX) $(OBJS) $(FEATURE_LIBS)
$(LIBS) -lz -static

You'll need static libraries to link against. On Fedora they are in
the following packages: glibc-static, zlib-static,
pciutils-devel-static.

Regards,

Marcos