Shadowsocks-libev: How to build libev statically

[tonyzzzzzz]

What version of shadowsocks-libev are you using?

3.3.0

What operating system are you using?

macOS 10.14.5

What did you do?

I tried to build statically with all library needed so that I could share the binary with friends. However, after I specified the libev lib location, the binary can't be excuted and prompted that it needs the libev dynamic lib.

Below is my configuration parameters

sudo ./configure --prefix=/Users/tonyzou/Downloads/shadowsocks-libev-3.3.0/ --with-pcre=/usr/local/opt/pcre --disable-documentation --with-sodium=/usr/local/opt/libsodium --with-ev=/usr/local/opt/libev --with-cares=/usr/local/opt/c-ares --with-mbedtls=/usr/local/opt/mbedtls --enable-static --enable-shared

What did you expect to see?

A binary for macOS without the need of dynamic libs

What did you see instead?

A binary for macOS with the need of dynamic libs

What is your config in detail (with all sensitive info masked)?

See above

[icpz]

You can build with cmake:

brew install cmake c-ares libev libsodium mbedtls pcre

cd shadowsocks-libev

mkdir -p build && cd build

cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DWITH_DOC_HTML=OFF -DWITH_DOC_MAN=OFF -DWITH_STATIC=ON ..

make -j4

The executables are placed in build/bin/.

Note that it's hardly build a totally static linked binary on macOS, but after the above steps the binaries only links to /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib which is provided on all macOS.