Webview Usage with static Musl

[wwderw]

On Linux Mint with webkit 4.1-dev installed, I noticed that when I take the nightly debug version using gcc, I can get webui to show up no problem. However, when I use musl with the -static flag, it fails. The browser fallback will work, but not webview. Is there something preventing webview from working when building the library with static musl?

[wwderw]

Build webui with: CC="x86_64-linux-musl-gcc -static" make
Compile program with: muslc main.c -I /usr/local/include -L /usr/local/lib -lwebui -lpthread -lm -ldl -o programName

muslc is a function in my bashrc to invoke musl -static

[AlbertShown]

make debug CC=musl-gcc

[Core]          _webui_wv_show([http://localhost:65074])
[Core]          _webui_load_gtk_and_webkit() -> GTK load failed
[Core]          _webui_wv_free()
[Core]          _webui_show_window() -> WebView Not Found

Thank you for reporting this. Working on it.

[AlbertShown]

I think the issue is outside WebUI, I think musl basically has libc ABI incompatibility... so, even if musl found the WebView lib I'm not sure if a program built with musl can load a dynamic library build with libc.

Also, musl has a more strict search path, apparently musl search only in /lib and /usr/lib only.

This is just my opinion, I'm not sure yet.

[wwderw]

I think the issue is outside WebUI, I think musl basically has libc ABI incompatibility... so, even if musl found the WebView lib I'm not sure if a program built with musl can load a dynamic library build with libc.

Also, musl has a more strict search path, apparently musl search only in /lib and /usr/lib only.

This is just my opinion, I'm not sure yet.

Darn, I can see that being the case. I was hoping that since we weren't linking at compile time, that would be a loophole.