Building Spot

This is to build statically linked yet compact binaries for Spot tools for Linux, Windows and OSX.

Static binaries for Linux

./configure --disable-shared --disable-python --disable-devel --enable-optimizations --prefix ~/spot.linux
make LDFLAGS=-all-static
make install-strip

Static binaries for Windows using MinGW toolchain

MinGW GCC misses implementation for threads (at least for MinGW GCC v9.3.0). This results in error when building spot/bricks/brick-shmem which uses std::thread. A workaround:

Copy header files from mingw-std-threads into spot/bricks/
- Only these two header files are needed: mingw.invoke.h and mingw.thread.h
- Local copy: mingw-std-threads-1.0.0.tar.gz (25 KiB)
In spot/bricks/brick-shmem replace #include <thread> by #include "mingw.thread.h"

./configure --disable-shared --disable-python --disable-devel --enable-optimizations --host x86_64-w64-mingw32 --prefix ~/spot.windows
make LDFLAGS=-all-static
make install-strip

Static binaries for OSX

./configure --disable-shared --disable-python --disable-devel --enable-optimizations --prefix ~/spot.osx
make LDFLAGS="-all-static -static-libstdc++ -static-libgcc"
make install-strip