Linking SFML static libs to project - c++

Question

Good morning! I'm moving from shared SFML libs to static. But I have a lot of errors: g++ couldn't find some libs. I used this tutorial :https://github.com/SFML/SFML/wiki/Tutorial%3A-Build-your-SFML-project-with-CMake . My CMakeLists.txt:
cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8)
project(LastFail)
set(CMAKE_ARCHIVE_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/libs/)
set(CMAKE_LIBRARY_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/libs/)
set(CMAKE_C_COMPILER_INIT g++)
add_definitions(-std=c++1y -w)
set(CMAKE_MODULE_PATH "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/cmake_modules" ${CMAKE_MODULE_PATH})
find_package(SFML 2 REQUIRED system window graphics network audio)
include_directories(
include/
libs/include/
)
file(GLOB SRC
"src/*/*.cpp"
"src/*.cpp"
)
add_executable(LastFail ${SRC})
target_link_libraries(LastFail
${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/libs/libjsoncpp.a
${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/libs/libsfml-audio-s.a
${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/libs/libsfml-graphics-s.a
${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/libs/libsfml-network-s.a
${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/libs/libsfml-system-s.a
${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/libs/libsfml-window-s.a
)
set_target_properties(LastFail PROPERTIES
OUTPUT_NAME "LastFail"
CLEAN_DIRECT_OUTPUT 1
)
Small part of my errors:
JoystickImpl.cpp:(.text+0x1166): undefined reference to 'udev_device_get_syspath'
libs/libsfml-window-s.a(JoystickImpl.cpp.o): In function 'sf::priv::JoystickImpl::open(unsigned int)':
JoystickImpl.cpp:(.text+0x19ed): undefined reference to 'udev_device_new_from_syspath'
How do I fix that? I need to do that cross-platform way. Thanks!
Edit:
Of course, I have a directory called libs with all needed libraries.

Answer 1

First, packaging all dependencies with the project itself is generally a bad idea, but for game-like applications there could be exceptions.
In your case, the problem is not within packaged SFML, but libudev library. This library is
Linux-specific (not cross-platform)
Can't be linked statically (well, it probably could, but i bet it is a very bad idea, because library you linked in could be different version that udev daemon running on the host machine)
So, you need to add udev to your target_link_libraries() anyway.