meson option to control linking of hdf5 deps

Author: pcarruscag

.github/workflows/release-management.yml

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ jobs:
           - os_bin: linux64
             flags: '-Dwith-mpi=disabled --cross-file=/hostfiles/hostfile_linux'
           - os_bin: linux64-mpi
-            flags: '-Dcustom-mpi=true --cross-file=/hostfiles/hostfile_linux_mpi'
+            flags: '-Dcustom-mpi=true -Dstatic-cgns-deps=true --cross-file=/hostfiles/hostfile_linux_mpi'
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
       - name: Cache Object Files

externals/cgns/hdf5/meson.build

@@ -24,9 +24,8 @@ hdf5_conf_data.set('version', '1.12.1')
 
 ext_deps = []
 
-
-opt_zlib = dependency('zlib', required: false)
-opt_szip = dependency('szip', required: false)
+opt_zlib = dependency('zlib', required: false, static: get_option('static-cgns-deps'))
+opt_szip = dependency('szip', required: false, static: get_option('static-cgns-deps'))
 
 if opt_zlib.found() and cc.has_header('zlib.h')
   if cc.has_function('inflate', dependencies: opt_zlib, prefix: '#include <zlib.h>')

meson.build

@@ -304,3 +304,7 @@ if get_option('enable-librom')
           '''.format(get_option('librom_root')))
 
 endif
+
+if get_option('enable-pywrapper') and get_option('enable-cgns') and not get_option('static-cgns-deps')
+  message(''' WARNING: If compilation fails with a message regarding "static linkage of dynamic object", reconfigure with option -Dstatic-cgns-deps=true.''')
+endif

meson_options.txt

@@ -23,3 +23,4 @@ option('codi-tape', type : 'combo', choices : ['JacobianLinear', 'JacobianIndex'
 option('opdi-shared-read-opt', type : 'boolean', value : true, description : 'OpDiLib shared reading optimization')
 option('librom_root', type : 'string', value : '', description: 'libROM base directory')
 option('enable-librom', type : 'boolean', value : false, description: 'enable LLNL libROM support')
+option('static-cgns-deps', type : 'boolean', value : false, description: 'prefer static or dynamic (default) libraries for CGNS dependencies')