Pain getting the right packages for alpine

Author: caesay

.github/workflows/build.yml

@@ -77,13 +77,22 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build in Alpine
         run: |
           docker run --rm -v "$PWD":/src -w /src alpine:latest sh -c '
+            set -e
             apk add --no-cache \
               gcc musl-dev meson vala bison pkgconf file \
-              glib-dev glib-static libxml2-dev libxml2-static zlib-dev zlib-static \
-              pcre2-dev pcre2-static util-linux-dev xz-dev xz-static
+              glib-dev glib-static \
+              libxml2-dev libxml2-static \
+              zlib-dev zlib-static \
+              pcre2-dev pcre2-static \
+              libffi-dev \
+              xz-dev xz-static \
+              util-linux-dev util-linux-static
+            echo "=== Verifying static libs ==="
+            ls /usr/lib/lib{glib-2.0,gio-2.0,gobject-2.0,xml2,z,pcre2-8,ffi,lzma,mount,blkid}.a
             meson setup builddir --default-library=static --prefer-static
             meson compile -C builddir
             file builddir/wixl
+            ldd builddir/wixl || echo "statically linked"
             builddir/wixl --version
           '
 

meson.build

@@ -257,6 +257,8 @@ if host_machine.system() == 'windows'
     '-ladvapi32', '-luserenv', '-liphlpapi', '-ldnsapi',
     '-lbcrypt',
   ]
+elif host_machine.system() == 'linux'
+  platform_link_args = ['-static']
 else
   platform_link_args = []
 endif