Failed to load one of xlib's shared libraries

[mdkcore0]

Hi, I'm trying to build a static linked version of a prototype, but when trying to run I'm getting the following error:

Error: Error initializing winit event loop: os error at /root/.cargo/registry/src/index.crates.io-1949cf8c6b5b557f/winit-0.30.13/src/platform_impl/linux/mod.rs:788: Failed to load one of xlib's shared libraries

I am using alpine to create the static linked version of the program, and have all needed dependencies installed on my machine (native builds works with no issue).

I saw that one dependency on Cargo.lock is x11-dl, maybe it's why I'm having an issue (musl, also saw this issue and musl builds should work, right?)? This is the command I'm using to build the application:

export RUSTFLAGS="-C target-feature=+crt-static -C link-self-contained=yes -L native=/usr/lib -l static=bz2 -l static=png -l static=xml2 -l static=fontconfig -l static=freetype -l static=expat -l static=z -C link-arg=l:libbrotlidec.a -C link-arg=-l:libbrotlicommon.a"
cargo build --target x86_64-unknown-linux-musl --bins --release

Any suggestion, or direction? Many thanks!

[madsmtm]

Yeah, Winit currently dynamically links X11, would be solved by #3198 but that's stalled a bit.

Maybe consider only using Wayland? winit = { version = "0.30.13", default-features = false, features = ["wayland", "wayland-csd-adwaita"] } should do the trick.

[mdkcore0]

I prefer (and use) wayland on my computers, but I need to test it against some machines that do run x11 (I will try to move them to wayland, but doesn't depend only on me).

Is there something I can do to help? I still quite new to rust, but maybe with some direction I can be useful in any way.

[kchibisov]

The issue is not dynamic linking per se, but dlopen on musl I believe. I think you can disable -dl features.