Static build on Linux

[ariya]

ariya.hi...@gmail.com commented:

Now that we have included Qt source (issue 226), let's investigate on how to enable static build on Linux.

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This issue was migrated on 2013-03-15 from the project's former issue tracker on Google Code, Issue #413.
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[ariya]

ariya.hi...@gmail.com commented:

Files seem to be compiled just fine. The linking is actually the main problem.

[raynor08]

rayno...@gmail.com commented:

Expecting this can be solved, that will save us huge amount of efforts by building once and deploy to all hosts!

[ariya]

ariya.hi...@gmail.com commented:

For non-static build, deployment should not be an issue. Doesn't the deploy/package-linux-dynamic.sh script work for you?

[raynor08]

rayno...@gmail.com commented:

Yes the build.sh and package-linux-dynamic.sh work for me, and solved a runtime issue that we have on our RHEL5 and unblocked us, really appreciate the work!

The question is now with Qt/webkit source code merged to phantomJS source tree, does that mean the deployable package is all that I need to make phantomJS work on any host? And I don't have to install Qt at all on a clean host?

Thanks!

[ariya]

ariya.hi...@gmail.com commented:

The build works everywhere, see http://ariya.ofilabs.com/2012/03/the-evolution-of-phantomjs-build-workflow.html for details. Text rendering requires Freetype and Fontconfig so those libraries must be available in the target machine.

[raynor08]

rayno...@gmail.com commented:

Got it, thanks a lot!！

[ariya]

johan.a...@gmail.com commented:

Hi there,

We are abou to install phantomjs on REL 5.8. But it seem that the existing glibc version on the server is too old (2.5). Currently we are not able to upgrade on the servers.
What is the plan (or how do we) for providing a static build for Linux?
As said before, the static Mac OS build is perfect.

[ariya]

ariya.hi...@gmail.com commented:

The plan is to provide a static build for Linux once someone steps in and volunteers to fix the linker problem mentioned in comment #1.

If the current binary does not work for you, I suggest trying to build from source.

[milianw]

m...@milianw.de commented:

a workaround now waits to be merged, see: #241 and https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/phantomjs/TVSrPVY24bs

[ariya]

ariya.hi...@gmail.com commented:

Quasi-static patch is landed in e185a5c2b6. Thank you!

[ghost]

seanerussell@gmail.com commented:

The ld-linux trick segfaults when I run it on RHEL 5.6 (quad core Opteron). I've attached a trace script.

As a test, I ran the same files the same way on Ubuntu 10.04 and I did not get a segfault. FWIW, I tried running it with RHEL's ld-linux; it failed with a symbol lookup error in GLIBCXX.

[ghost]

seanerussell@gmail.com commented:

setarch doesn't help:

[russes02a@ybkoperl53t autocompare]$ setarch x86_64 -RL ./phantomjs-1.5.0/lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 --library-path ./phantomjs-1.5.0/lib phantomjs-1.5.0/bin/phantomjs
Segmentation fault

Sadness.

[ariya]

ariya.hi...@gmail.com commented:

 

 
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[ariya]

ariya.hi...@gmail.com commented:

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[trichins]

trich...@soleranetworks.com commented:

The run script doesn't work. The last line is written as:

exec $path/lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 $phantomjs $@

when it should instead be:
exec $path/lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 $path/bin/phantomjs.bin $@

[ariya]

jzx...@gmail.com commented:

Could you tell me if the build script still capable of producing a dynamic build, if so how ?

I used to favor static build too. but on a low end 256M device with no swap. Phantom is bearly usable other than opening "example.com", suffering frequent resource allocation error. On the other hand, Ghost.py with PyQt4 works just fine with. I wonder if this is due to the static build nature.