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ChipTuner | 13 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 For open source, I care about user freedom in the case of linking, which is why noscrypt is licensed under lgpl. I want users to be able to swap/edit libraries or build their own if they want to. Make a common ABI (usually defined in a shared header file, or interface in C#) and have fun.
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mleku | 13 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 i generally use CC0 these days

simple = better

i do need to learn how to build my stuff purely static tho, damn... or at least to pull in that secp256k1 library to the binary so it runs on linux, good thing i didn't try to distribute a binary!
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mleku | 13 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 btw, default autotools compiles seem to make the static library... you get a .a, .la (which just points at the .a as its binary) and .so in maybe several versions - at least with libsecp256k1 it was

and so i was able to do this:

mleku@iox:~/src/realy.lol/cmd/realy$ ls -lash|grep realy
 23M -rwxrwxr-x 1 mleku mleku  23M Nov 10 20:16 realy
4.0K -rw-rw-r-- 1 mleku mleku  414 Oct 20 22:57 realy.service
mleku@iox:~/src/realy.lol/cmd/realy$ ldd realy
        not a dynamic executable

and you see, that only added 3mb to the size of the binary and i can distribute that and it will work on any system with glib2 on amd64 architecture
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mleku | 13 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 this is how i did it:

mleku@iox:~/src/realy.lol$ go build --ldflags '-extldflags "-static"' -o ~/bin/realy ./cmd/realy/. 
# realy.lol/cmd/realy
/usr/bin/ld: /tmp/go-link-1787515793/000021.o: in function `mygetgrgid_r':
/_/GOROOT/src/os/user/cgo_lookup_cgo.go:45:(.text+0x44): warning: Using 'getgrgid_r' in statically linked applications requires at runtime the shared libraries from the glibc version used for linking
/usr/bin/ld: /tmp/go-link-1787515793/000021.o: in function `mygetgrnam_r':
/_/GOROOT/src/os/user/cgo_lookup_cgo.go:54:(.text+0xe5): warning: Using 'getgrnam_r' in statically linked applications requires at runtime the shared libraries from the glibc version used for linking
/usr/bin/ld: /tmp/go-link-1787515793/000022.o: in function `mygetgrouplist':
/_/GOROOT/src/os/user/getgrouplist_unix.go:15:(.text+0x22): warning: Using 'getgrouplist' in statically linked applications requires at runtime the shared libraries from the glibc version used for linking
/usr/bin/ld: /tmp/go-link-1787515793/000004.o: in function `_cgo_04fbb8f65a5f_C2func_getaddrinfo':
/tmp/go-build/cgo-gcc-prolog:60:(.text+0x37): warning: Using 'getaddrinfo' in statically linked applications requires at runtime the shared libraries from the glibc version used for linking
/usr/bin/ld: /tmp/go-link-1787515793/000021.o: in function `mygetpwnam_r':
/_/GOROOT/src/os/user/cgo_lookup_cgo.go:36:(.text+0x18a): warning: Using 'getpwnam_r' in statically linked applications requires at runtime the shared libraries from the glibc version used for linking
/usr/bin/ld: /tmp/go-link-1787515793/000021.o: in function `mygetpwuid_r':
/_/GOROOT/src/os/user/cgo_lookup_cgo.go:27:(.text+0x249): warning: Using 'getpwuid_r' in statically linked applications requires at runtime the shared libraries from the glibc version used for linking
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mleku | 13 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 being that glibc has been at version 2 for like 20 years that's probably ok... and even if they do bump to a 3 there probably will be glib.so.2 libraries installed by default for a long time