From: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@amutable.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2026 12:06:28 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: meson: allow manager to be linked statically
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=fff9c9ba4693d6a8fc69e27f321712e357dc87fe;p=thirdparty%2Fsystemd.git

meson: allow manager to be linked statically

After stripping, in an unoptimized build with glibc, we get a 8.7 MB binary:
$ file build-static/systemd
build-static/systemd: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (GNU/Linux), statically linked, BuildID[sha1]=1ec004bf61b775d284d909a818a3c4f63f83f055, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, stripped
$ ls -lh build-static/systemd
-rwxr-xr-x 1 zbyszek zbyszek 8.7M Jun 30 14:07 build-static/systemd
---

diff --git a/src/core/meson.build b/src/core/meson.build
index 3708caf4e0b..2d3ed4cff2a 100644
--- a/src/core/meson.build
+++ b/src/core/meson.build
@@ -209,6 +209,9 @@ systemd_deps = [
         libselinux_cflags,
 ]
 
+systemd_link_args = get_option('build-static') ? ['-static'] : []
+systemd_libs = get_option('build-static') ? core_libs_static : core_libs_shared
+
 executor_libs = get_option('link-executor-shared') ? core_libs_shared : core_libs_static
 
 if conf.get('SYSTEMD_MULTICALL_BINARY') == 1
@@ -226,7 +229,8 @@ executables += [
                 'dbus' : true,
                 'public' : true,
                 'sources' : systemd_sources,
-                'link_with' : core_libs_shared,
+                'link_args' : systemd_link_args,
+                'link_with' : systemd_libs,
                 'dependencies' : systemd_deps,
         },