Static linking

[ayles]

Hi

I am trying to embed Phonetisaurus in my binary and just encountered an issue:

Static linking with OpenFST fails with duplicate symbol FLAGS_help.
Fix is simple https://github.com/ayles/Phonetisaurus/commit/4aba2c65666bdae76af362023d379c32dccfa518
But I am afraid it could not work with shared OpenFST and I currently have no time to test this.

Is there any plans to add static linkage support and [possibly] CMakeLists.txt?
(In my case there is a Kaldi with its own forked OpenFST and it was just pain to provide Phonetisaurus with OpenFST includes and libraries, so I just wrote simple CMakeLists.txt wrapper)

[no-execution]

Same problem, have you solve it?

[danijel3]

Just solved this issue. Both phonetisaurus and openfst binaries use this flag. To get around it, I simply changed:

Phonetisaurus/src/lib/util.cc

Line 158 in f08d3df

DEFINE_bool (help, false, "show usage information");

To read:

DECLARE_bool   (help, false, "show usage information"); 

This may obviously crash the build of the original project, but works for me when I include it in my personal project.

Another solution would be to simply refactor the code and rename this flag to something else, eg. "help_phonetisaurus" or something like that...