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Is there a way to statically link an ocaml app compiled to native code against glibc?
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Eric Merritt
- Gerd Stolpmann
- Garrett Jones
- Sylvain Le Gall
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| From: | Gerd Stolpmann <info@g...> |
| Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] Is there a way to statically link an ocaml app compiled to native code against glibc? |
Am Mittwoch, den 28.11.2007, 16:06 -0800 schrieb Eric Merritt: > Everyone, > > I have spent quite a bit of time digging around for this on the net > with now luck. We have a pretty simple ocaml app for which we would > like to distribute an executable binary. For the most part this works. > However, we would like to minimize the number of binaries that we are > forced to distribute. We would also like to avoid any confusion on the > part of our users around figuring out which version of glibc they are > using. For example, we would like to avoid distributing a binary for > each version of glibc available. Its more work for us and has a chance > of confusing some of the folks using our work. Considering the > simplicity of our binary it seems like a good solution would be to be > to just statically link against glibc (our only non-ocaml dependency). > So it would be great if someone could give me pointers to docs that > describe how to do this. Extra points if I can easily do this with > OCamlMakefile. If there is another way to accomplish our goals I am > more then willing to entertain them, as there are a lot of potential > problems involved with static linking against glibc. Install some oldish distro somewhere, and link against glibc-2.1. This should run everywhere. At least, this is what the glibc people say about the compatibility of their library. Gerd -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Gerd Stolpmann * Viktoriastr. 45 * 64293 Darmstadt * Germany gerd@gerd-stolpmann.de http://www.gerd-stolpmann.de Phone: +49-6151-153855 Fax: +49-6151-997714 ------------------------------------------------------------