cross_compile and static linking

[dk_zero-cool]

Hi.
I have cross_compiled a few different things for Android over the last year. Now I'm trying to do the same with samba, but this gives me some problems. The configure part ignores everything I tell it to do.

I have a arm cross compiler installed that is set in the CC variable. But when i tell ./configure to use --prefix, --enable-static, --host and --disable-shared it makes no difference. The binaries that comes out of 'make' is not statically linked, they are not cross_compiled for arm and the installation dir is still set to /usr/local/samba although I changed it.

How do I compile samba for Android?
And I know there are a samba android package, but that is not what i am looking for. I don't want the app, just the binaries.

[BrianMicek]

Hi, have you seen this link?
Samba/Compiling Samba from Source - Wikibooks, open books for an open world

Here is an except from the link:

After you have downloaded the Samba sources from Samba.org, unpack these sources and enter the samba-<version>/source/ directory. Then you need to set the CC environment:
# export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/<path_to_compiler>/lib
# export LDFLAGS=-L/<path_to_compiler>/lib
# export CPPFLAGS=-I/<path_to_compiler>/include
# export CC=<path_to_compiler>/bin/<your_compiler>
[...] clipped [...]
# ./configure --host=i686 --target=mips-linux-uclibc

As far as ./configure, its just a script and as a result, things are different amount different vendors. In SAMBAs' case, they don't seem to support those options based on this page:
http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/using_samba/appe.html

I've never cross compiled SAMBA, but I have run into issues like you are describing ... try following the above instructions, set the LDFLAGS to include "-static" and experiment with "-static-libgcc" also.