2011/12/1 Irene Knapp <ireney.kn...@gmail.com>: > The typical trick to force GHC to statically link a C library > is to give the full path to the .a of it as one of the object > files in the GHC invocation that does the final linking. This > means you don't need any -l or -L flags pertaining to that > library. Some libraries are very particular about the order > you list them in when doing this, but I don't really > understand the issues there. You usually will also have to > chase dependencies by hand and list them in the same fashion.
I recently tried using this method to create static binary; but I was not able to get it to work. I thought I would revive this old thread and see if anyone else has given it a shot. What I attempted was building a binary with only some C libraries statically linked, with this command line: # Build https://github.com/erudify/sssp on Ubunut 12.04 ghc -outputdir ./tmp -v --make -O2 sssp.hs -o sssp.ubuntu \ /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libffi.a \ /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgmp.a \ /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.a However, this really made no difference. Running `ldd' on the resulting binary reveals that libz and friends are still dynamically linked: ldd sssp.ubuntu linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007fff94253000) libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007f0ddfdbb000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f0ddfb9e000) libgmp.so.10 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgmp.so.10 (0x00007f0ddf92f000) libffi.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libffi.so.6 (0x00007f0ddf727000) libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007f0ddf42d000) librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007f0ddf224000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f0ddf020000) libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f0ddec63000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f0ddffdb000) There is always -optl-static which, nowadays, results in a truly static executable; but it leads to a lot of warnings, too. -- Jason Dusek pgp // solidsnack // C1EBC57DC55144F35460C8DF1FD4C6C1FED18A2B _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
