[Brian_K_White]

"So if you want to statically link against a dynamic library (what a phrase!)"

Yes but like an artificially created remarkableness. "dynamic library" should just be "library", and then it's not remarkable at all.

It does seem obvious, and your Delphi example and the other comment wcc example shows, that if an executable can be assembled from .so at run time, then the same thing can also be done at any other time. All the pieces are just sitting there wondering why we're not using them.