dependencies/ui: Honor static argument with wxwidgets

Fixes #6564

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/mesonbuild/dependencies/ui.py b/mesonbuild/dependencies/ui.py
index 35bbcd5..11d6e88 100644
--- a/mesonbuild/dependencies/ui.py
+++ b/mesonbuild/dependencies/ui.py
@@ -538,10 +538,22 @@ class WxDependency(ConfigToolDependency):
         if not self.is_found:
             return
         self.requested_modules = self.get_requested(kwargs)
+
+        extra_args = []
+        if self.static:
+            extra_args.append('--static=yes')
+
+            # Check to make sure static is going to work
+            err = Popen_safe(self.config + extra_args)[2]
+            if 'No config found to match' in err:
+                mlog.debug('WxWidgets is missing static libraries.')
+                self.is_found = False
+                return
+
         # wx-config seems to have a cflags as well but since it requires C++,
         # this should be good, at least for now.
-        self.compile_args = self.get_config_value(['--cxxflags'] + self.requested_modules, 'compile_args')
-        self.link_args = self.get_config_value(['--libs'] + self.requested_modules, 'link_args')
+        self.compile_args = self.get_config_value(['--cxxflags'] + extra_args + self.requested_modules, 'compile_args')
+        self.link_args = self.get_config_value(['--libs'] + extra_args + self.requested_modules, 'link_args')
 
     @staticmethod
     def get_requested(kwargs: T.Dict[str, T.Any]) -> T.List[str]: