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From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
To: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [EXT] Option to create statically linked binaries
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2021 22:22:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YczRsMzGFTV4dNIV@tuxteam.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ=RwfYMmz_YrsBJ6jB517C26+Ks7J8b7MNrVYvTphwCjhiukg@mail.gmail.com>

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On Wed, Dec 29, 2021 at 02:52:20PM -0500, Thompson, David wrote:
> Hi Sai,
> 
> On Wed, Dec 29, 2021 at 1:14 PM Sai Karthik <kskarthik@disroot.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hello everyone! I'm new to guile. I am exploring the language since a
> > couple of days. It would be nice to have option to produce such binaries
> > for programs built using guile (like with golang & some more langs).
> 
> That is not possible. Guile is currently dependent upon having a
> bytecode interpreter installed on the machine that is running Guile
> programs. The good news is that native compilation is something that
> the Guile maintainers have planned for the future, which would enable
> things like self-contained binaries.

On top of that, GNU libc is (at least in parts, libnss I think)
dynamically linked anyway, AFAIK.

My hunch is that Guile's core depends on GNU libc.

Cheers
-- 
t

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      reply	other threads:[~2021-12-29 21:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-12-29 17:29 Option to create statically linked binaries Sai Karthik
2021-12-29 19:27 ` James Crake-Merani
2021-12-29 20:08   ` Keith Wright
2021-12-30  6:28     ` Sai Karthik
2021-12-29 19:52 ` [EXT] " Thompson, David
2021-12-29 21:22   ` tomas [this message]

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