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?
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.
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.
moreover, the static version is available in Rocky 9 but not in Rocky 8.
OK, thanks for the clarification as was going by the results from pkgs.org 
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
yes, but the zstd developers explicitly say that such functions should only be used with static linking.
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