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Slightly off-topic: statically linking

Slightly off-topic: statically linking

Posted Aug 4, 2011 8:19 UTC (Thu) by epa (subscriber, #39769)
In reply to: Slightly off-topic: statically linking by mjthayer
Parent article: Getting a better Glimpse at unstable applications

Isn't there a tool which takes a dynamically linked executable and a bunch of libraries, and spits out a big statically linked blob?

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Slightly off-topic: statically linking

Posted Aug 4, 2011 8:24 UTC (Thu) by mjthayer (guest, #39183) [Link]

> Isn't there a tool which takes a dynamically linked executable and a bunch of libraries, and spits out a big statically linked blob?

That would probably be quite a bit bigger than a properly done statically linked binary though - in theory at least; I suspect that most libraries on a typical Linux-based system are probably not at all optimised for static linking.

Slightly off-topic: statically linking

Posted Aug 5, 2011 16:48 UTC (Fri) by jsanders (subscriber, #69784) [Link]

pyinstaller does something like this for python applications, allowing you to distribute a tarball of the executable plus libraries which the user can unpack into a single directory. I use it to distribute my PyQt-based plotting application Veusz.


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