Linking completely statically

[Aycan iRiCAN]

Hi Volker,

You may also want to check out ghc-musl project https://github.com/utdemir/ghc-musl which provides compiled docker images to build atatic executables for various ghc versions.

Cheers,

--
aycan

> On Aug 11, 2020, at 5:59 AM, Volker Wysk <post at volker-wysk.de> wrote:
> 
> Am Dienstag, den 11.08.2020, 10:26 +0200 schrieb Herrmann, Andreas:
>> Hi Volker,
> 
> Hi!
> 
>>> Is it possible to link the remaining libraries statically too?
>> 
>> Yes, it is possible to generate fully statically linked Haskell
>> binaries. Though it requires a bit of setup. For example the GNU C
>> library glibc is not really intended for fully static linking, but
>> you can use musl as an alternative libc instead.
>> 
>> Probably the easiest way is to use static-haskell-nix [1]. Usage
>> instructions are available in the project README. See [2] if you're
>> not familiar with Nix.
> 
> This looks complicated, even though it is the easiest way. I've tried
> to build it from the git sources, as well as from the latest release,
> but that failed. I'd have to look into nix, which is new to me.
> 
> Be it as it may, it isn't that important for me right now.
> 
> But thank you very much for your tips. Maybe I'll be going back to them
> later.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Volker
> 
>> Recently, the Haskell extension to Bazel, rules_haskell, also gained
>> the ability to generate fully statically linked binaries building on
>> top of Nix, see [3].
>> 
>> Best, Andreas
>> 
>> [1]: https://github.com/nh2/static-haskell-nix
>> [2]: https://nixos.org/
>> [3]: 
>> https://rules-haskell.readthedocs.io/en/latest/haskell-use-cases.html#building-fully-statically-linked-binaries
> 
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