large binaries

[Abraham Egnor]

> > 1. hello_hs is probably statically linked.  hello_c is probably
> >    dynamically linked.
> >
> 
> Right. The ldd command gives the dependencies (on Linux):
> 
> awo@asterix:~> ldd hello
>         libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40022000)
>         /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
> 
> If you compile hello.c as static binary, like 
> 
> 	gcc -static -o hello hello.c
> 
> then the resulting exe is rather big, too ;-)
> 
> awo@asterix:~> ls -l hello
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 awo      users     1486299 Jul 18 21:40 hello
> 
> So ghc isnt so bad, really :-)

Okay, that makes sense.

Is there some reason haskell binaries have to be statically linked?  I
can't seem to find a way to make them otherwise, at least with ghc.

Abe