Installing libzstd-static in Rocky8

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Centos 7 had the libzstd-static package providing the static version of libzstd. I didn’t find it in the Rocky 8 repositories. How can I install the static version of libzstd in Rocky 8?

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Hi,
According to the search here: https://pkgs.org/search/?q=libzstd you can get the libzstd package from Remi’s repository for EL8 and EL9.

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libzstd is not in “remi” repository (only an old version existed before it was added in 8.2, but now cleaned)

zstd, libzstd and libzstd-devel are in BaseOS/AppStream

static library is not available (but I don’t see any usage for this one, as the API/ABI of the shared library will be preserve by updates)

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I need the static version, since we use custom functions for allocating/freeing memory, which are declared experimental and are available only when using the static version.

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moreover, the static version is available in Rocky 9 but not in Rocky 8.

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OK, thanks for the clarification as was going by the results from pkgs.org :slight_smile:

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I see the symbol available in the shared library.

$ objdump -T /usr/lib64/libzstd.so | grep advanced
0000000000020c50 g    DF .text	0000000000000072  Base        ZSTD_compress_usingCDict_advanced
00000000000124e0 g    DF .text	000000000000005c  Base        ZSTD_compress_usingCDict_advanced
000000000000f8c0 g    DF .text	0000000000000009  Base        ZSTD_createCStream_advanced
000000000000f550 g    DF .text	0000000000000233  Base        ZSTD_createCDict_advanced
00000000000683d0 g    DF .text	00000000000000a6  Base        ZSTD_createDDict_advanced
...

I don’t see any issue using them, as ABI/API won’t change in Enterprise Linux

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yes, but the zstd developers explicitly say that such functions should only be used with static linking.

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