how to build static library

[NiklasPhabian]

If I am seeing correctly, we switched over to shared libraries.
But it seems that pystare still requires a static library / libSTARE.a
How do I build it?

[NiklasPhabian]

from https://github.com/SpatioTemporal/staged-recipes/blob/STARE/recipes/stare/build.sh

#!/bin/bash

cmake -S $SRC_DIR \
      -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=YES \
      -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=${PREFIX} \
      -DSTARE_INSTALL_LIBDIR=lib

make
make test
make install

[NiklasPhabian]

well; I guess DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS has to be set to NO.
How would I build both the shared and the static libraries?

[michaelleerilee]

Go through the process twice.

[mbauer288]

OS : Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy)
Kernel : 5.15.0-41-generic
Python : 3.10.5

Rather than use conda I chose a manual install.

To do this I first needed to add a few things.

$ sudo apt install cmake
$ sudo apt install g++
$ sudo apt-get install graphviz
$ sudo apt-get install doxygen

However I ran into a permission problem at the install stage as the default /usr/local requires sudo privileges.

  $ make install
      ...
      -- Install configuration: ""
      CMake Error at include/cmake_install.cmake:46 (file):
        file cannot create directory: /usr/local/include/STARE.  Maybe need administrative privileges.

Redirecting the install to a local directory fixed the problem.

    $ export CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="/home/mbauer/.local"
    $ cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=/home/mbauer/.local .. 
    $ make install
        ..
        [100%] Linking CXX executable tests
        [100%] Built target tests

This made Shared library files

/home/mbauer/.local/include/STARE/
	STARE.h
	...
	
/home/mbauer/.local/OFF/
	libSTARE.so  
	libSTARE.so.1  
	libSTARE.so.1.2.5

However, as noted above this only made the shared library files. Borrowing from the above solution I was able to generate the static lib as well.

    $ cmake -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=No -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=/home/mbauer/.local ..
    
    $ make install
        ...
        -- Installing: /home/mbauer/.local/OFF/libSTARE.a
        ...

Mike