Re: creating a compact binary
On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 11:13:53PM -0400, Mag Gam wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
> > On 2009-04-06 18:59, Mag Gam wrote:
> >>
> >> I was wondering if its possible to compile src code (for example
> >> rsync) to create 1 large binary. I want to do this to easily
> >> distribute rsync.
> >
> > To what kind of platform? You can't just require that certain libraries
> > exist?
> >
> > Besides, static binaries are *huge*. Definitely not compact. Do you really
> > mean stand-alone?
>> I don't really care about the size. But I really want the entire rsync
> distribution to be in 1 file.
>
> What is the difference between static binary and standalone?
>
Isn't there a tool that takes a dynamically linked binary and creates a
statically linked binary without recompiling from source?
I still can't imagine needing to create a statically linked binary to
distribute it. Is this for unix?
Doug.
Reply to: