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laanwj | 12 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 speaking of that, did you see whitequark's "superlnker" project ? (https://github.com/whitequark/superlinker)

it is a tool that can link a binary and all its dynamic dependencies together into one self-contained binary, even the dynamic linker itself (so the resulting binary can still use dlopen)

it would be risky to use it for production-level distributed software, but i imagine one could use it trivially on bitcoind to make a fully self-contained binary
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ChipTuner | 12 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 Bookmarked! Will take a look when I get back to my machine later! IIRC dlopen isn't really necessary most of the time right? The OS will map the dynamic library to the function stubs (in .plt) at load time? 

>it would be risky to use it for production-level distributed software, but i imagine one could use it trivially on bitcoind to make a fully self-contained binary
Agreed. Not sure the usefulness though, other than it being a somewhat portable binary if you build it right lol. I tend to enjoy the idea of stable ABIs and dynamic libraries.