Linking completely statically

[Volker Wysk]

Am Sonntag, den 09.08.2020, 09:53 -0400 schrieb Brandon Allbery:
> If you are obeying all the necessary restrictions on glibc, or you
> are
> using a different libc such as musl which is designed for static
> linking, then "-Wl,-static" should be sufficient. Doing this with
> glibc will likely result in a crash unless the same version of glibc
> is available at runtime.

Thanks for the tip! But I'll let it be for now.

Cheers,
Volker

> 
> On 8/9/20, Volker Wysk <post at volker-wysk.de> wrote:
> > Am Sonntag, den 09.08.2020, 08:59 -0400 schrieb Brandon Allbery:
> > > Linux is not friendly to static linking, and you would need to
> > > either
> > > package or match exact versions of things like the nss and locale
> > > libraries that are dynamically loaded at runtime and don't show
> > > up in
> > > ldd. This limitation comes from glibc and is documented in its
> > > manual.
> > 
> > That's bad. But, like you said, it *is* possible. The dar (disk
> > archiver) program comes with a statically linked version
> > "dar_static":
> > 
> > % ldd dar_static
> > Das Programm ist nicht dynamisch gelinkt
> > 
> > ("The program isn't linked dynamically.")
> > 
> > From your answer, I assume that this isn't supported by GHC.
> > 
> > Cheers
> > Volker
> > 
> > 
> > > On Sun, Aug 9, 2020, 08:50 Volker Wysk <post at volker-wysk.de>
> > > wrote:
> > > > Hi!
> > > > 
> > > > I know of the command line argument "-static". But this only
> > > > affects
> > > > the Haskell libraries. I want to link some programs completely
> > > > statically, no external libraries needed.
> > > > 
> > > > When just linking with "-static" I still have those dynamically
> > > > linked
> > > > things:
> > > > 
> > > > desktop ~/bin $ ldd sicherung
> > > >         linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffdab53f000)
> > > >         libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6
> > > > (0x00007f3633da0000)
> > > >         librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1
> > > > (0x00007f3633d95000)
> > > >         libutil.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libutil.so.1
> > > > (0x00007f3633d90000)
> > > >         libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2
> > > > (0x00007f3633d8a000)
> > > >         libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-
> > > > gnu/libpthread.so.0
> > > > (0x00007f3633d67000)
> > > >         libgmp.so.10 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgmp.so.10
> > > > (0x00007f3633ce3000)
> > > >         libatomic.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libatomic.so.1
> > > > (0x00007f3633cd7000)
> > > >         libffi.so.7 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libffi.so.7
> > > > (0x00007f3633ccb000)
> > > >         libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
> > > > (0x00007f3633ad9000)
> > > >         /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f3633f0c000)
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Is it possible to link the remaining libraries statically too?
> > > > 
> > > > Regards,
> > > > Volker
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