- Title:
- OCaml static linking
- Authors:
- Izuru Yakumo
- Date:
- Topics:
- Computing > Programming > OCaml
- Id:
- bb85caff-be39-47b0-9add-42fae180c796
Since quite a while ago (a month or so I guess) I had read this blog post by OCamlPro1 about generating static PIE with OCaml. The first project on where I have tried doing so was Logarion2 , and afterwards bumpmap-tool[2], each using a different build system. In the 1st case I had to add the field '(flags (:standard -cclib -static))' to the 'cli/dune' file and rebuilt with 'dune build' As for the 2nd case I added '-cclib -static' to the 'ocamlopt' flags in the command line and rebuilt.
I ran the ldd command in both (test done on a musl-based distro) only to have this output: - /lib/ld-musl-x86_64.so.1: (insert executable name here): Not a valid dynamic program
Which means that it does actually work, but I'm not sure whether it could work for bigger projects. I think that's all I've got to say here.
Links
1: <https://www.ocamlpro.com/2021/09/02/generating-static-and-portable-executables-with-ocaml/> 2: <https://logarion.chaotic.ninja> 3: <https://git.chaotic.ninja/yakumo.izuru/bumpmap-tool>