Thanks for you explanation, I understand the idea behind this. However, on the same time, for example, qttools5-dev:amd64 does provide /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt5UiTools.a
So it's not consistent? Anyway on the matter at hand, I decided worrying too much about static compiling, since it's not working as easy as expected (because I suppose not many people do this). So I'll just package the needed .so files along the binary with a small wrapper setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH to "." Kind regards, Axel On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 11:00 PM Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer < perezme...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Axel! > > El mié., 19 feb. 2020 16:12, Axel Kittenberger <axk...@gmail.com> > escribió: > >> Hello, >> >> I'm trying to statically compile a binary for easy distribution across >> versions (it's opensource anyway). >> Did I miss something? Or shouldn't there be a libQt5X11Extras.a file on >> my system available for static linking after installing >> libqt5x11extras5-dev? >> (debian buster) >> > > You will not be able to do so with Debian packages. We do not provide > static libs on purpose, it's done to avoid their use within Debian packages. > > Kind regards, Lisandro. > >>
