FRIGN <d...@frign.de> writes: > On Fri, 2 Oct 2015 14:21:57 +0000 (UTC) > Richard <r_j_humphr...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > > Hey Richard, > >> - looking further ahead; has there been any thoughts towards a >> staticallylinked/musl-based X11 server? Is it feasible to simply take >> the xorg sources and compile those with static linking or does that >> not work (or would it be philosophically incompatible)? suckless obviously >> has some useful tools like 'st' and 'dmenu' ready to go once X11 is >> available. I ask because the finest browser ever written is obviously >> 'surf', but worryingly surf depends on webkitgtk; which depends on gtk; >> which in turn might lead back to glibc,glib etc. > > This is not possible, as the xserver uses dlopen(3). You can't use > dlopen in a statically linked application.
You can use kdrive if you insist on static linking. > The status of compiling the xserver with a dynamically linked musl > is unknown to me. Works fine on Void and Alpine. (Statically linking X11 apps results in massively bloated binaries, I can't recommend it.) -- Christian Neukirchen <chneukirc...@gmail.com> http://chneukirchen.org
