On Fri, 2 Oct 2015 14:21:57 +0000 (UTC) Richard <r_j_humphr...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
Hey Richard, > - looking further ahead; has there been any thoughts towards a > staticallylinked/musl-based X11 server? Is it feasible to simply take > the xorg sources and compile those with static linking or does that > not work (or would it be philosophically incompatible)? suckless obviously > has some useful tools like 'st' and 'dmenu' ready to go once X11 is > available. I ask because the finest browser ever written is obviously > 'surf', but worryingly surf depends on webkitgtk; which depends on gtk; > which in turn might lead back to glibc,glib etc. This is not possible, as the xserver uses dlopen(3). You can't use dlopen in a statically linked application. The status of compiling the xserver with a dynamically linked musl is unknown to me. Cheers FRIGN -- FRIGN <d...@frign.de>