[HELP] manjaro installation - missing libLLVMBinaryFormat.a and about 100 other .a's

[drfear]

I have no clue about Manjaro.

Neither do I 

Am I right in thinking, then, that this is basically an underlying issue with the llvm installation and actually nothing to do with the vapoursynth installation per se?

"Interestingly"

llvm-config-15 --components

shows that all the components of these .a's are present - but nevertheless .a's are not getting created. And I think I read somewhere this is possibly related to meson.build's call to"... static: get_option('static-llvm')".  And the package llvm-static exists in an Ubuntu ppm, but not, as far as I can tell, in Manjaro or Arch package libraries.

Maybe I should compile my own llvm ...

Or I might be able to get away with just not using static.  I adjusted meson.build to read

  deps += dependency('llvm', version: ['>= 10.0', '< 17'], method: 'config-tool',
    modules: [
      'asmprinter', 'executionengine', 'target', 'orcjit', 'native',
    ])

And I have at least got this far with the error apparently gone (no further as yet, because first I have to reconstruct the full build environment again after several pointless reboots, and I've had to uninstall half my system so I could get llvm-15 to replace the installed high-dependency llvm-16)

llvm-config found: YES (/usr/bin/llvm-config-15) 15.0.7
Run-time dependency LLVM (modules: asmprinter, executionengine, native, orcjit, target) found: YES 15.0.7
Found pkg-config: YES (/usr/bin/pkg-config) 2.1.0
Run-time dependency vapoursynth found: YES 65
Build targets in project: 2

I'll report back.