[PaulDavisThe1st]

Step 3b is to make sure you don't use libraries that themselves cannot be fully statically linked (hello, GTK!).

It's cool that they use run-time dynamic loading to "modularize" certain features (such as image loading), but it seriously damages the benefits of static linkage.

[nh2]

GTK can be statically linked.

Example executable:

https://github.com/nh2/static-haskell-nix/releases/tag/c-sta...

It lost this ability temporarily when switching to Meson, but I fixed it in GTK3 and GTK4. But I just checked and apparently it is broken again:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/3774#note_109746...

[PaulDavisThe1st]

Oh, that's right. There's some option to build all modules as static libs or include them in the main .a ... sorry, I forgot about that.

Did GTK3 or GTK4 ever become relocatable on Linux?

[nh2]

Well, looks like you just turned right:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/merge_requests/3519#not...