Struggling with building runtime on Linux for c++

[Brian Sassone]

Is it possible to build the runtime as a static lib? If so, how do I do this with bazel?  There is no applicable target and this build system is not something I'm familiar with.

Tried using cmake, but that brings up a whole slew of other issues. Sigh.

I've compiled all kinds of 3rdparty packages on various OS's and have never struggled like this. Very frustrating.

-b

[Brian Sassone]

Better luck today using top of tree. Branch 29.3 build seems broken in various ways. Here's what worked using cmake:

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf.git

cd protobuf

mkdir build

cd build

cmake \

    -Dprotobuf_BUILD_TESTS=OFF \
    -Dprotobuf_BUILD_EXAMPLES=OFF \
    -Dprotobuf_BUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF \
    -DCMAKE_CXX_STANDARD=17 \

    ..

make

[Brian Sassone]

Now on to linking.... 98 independent absl static libs? Really? Would it not be possible to simply combine the ones protobuf is dependent on?  

In another post there was a mention about this being "bad practice". In who's world is it bad practice to make it easy to use a third party library?