Rule to build a fully static library

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Among the multiple “release” outputs of my project, I’d like to include a single static library, which packages the objects of all dependencies into it. However, from what I can tell, bazel cannot build such targets.

The following target produces a single .so containing all symbols from //product/foo and //product/bar.:

cc_binary(
  name = "libproduct.so",
  linkshared = 1,
  deps = [
     "//product/foo",
     "//product/bar",
  ],
)

I believe there is no way to generate a similar static library (libproduct.a). Is that something that will be of interest to add?

(#492 seems somewhat related, but not exactly)

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Created 7 years ago
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hlopkocommented, Jul 8, 2019

Work on #5200 has started, we plan to share designs in the Q3 and have it finished in Q4.

Note that it is possible to implement naive rule that will unarchive all transitive static libraries, and rearchive them into one big .a file today. See the example in rules_cc that can be extended to do this https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_cc/blob/master/examples/my_c_archive/my_c_archive.bzl. So you don’t have to wait for #5200 to be implemented if you don’t need to be able to filter out which deps will make it into the final archive in the same way as cc_shared_library will.

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lilinxiongcommented, May 14, 2021

So for nearly 5 years, children can run all over the floor, this problem is still not solved. Please allow me to laugh for 5 minutes first. hhhhhhhhhhhh~

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