These are my static-linked executables I'm building, which I think are interesting.
They consist of tools I use daily. As the name suggest, the static-linked executables don't rely on libraries (CMIIW), so you can just run it (tested in glibc and musl environment).
Some days ago, I found an interesting repository about android tools which can be built without GO compiler (check it here). If you're familiar with adb, fastboot, etc, you know what I'm talking about. It suits me because I have no GO compiler or won't bother to download one because I already have GCC. After firts successful build which result on dynamic linked binaries, I'm curious on building the static linked one. Here is how I did it !
Before we go deep into building stuffs, we need to prepare some stuffs.
Since I moved to source-based linux distro with musl (Dragora GNU/Linux & LFS Musl), I always wondering about how to run android platform tools on musl. Android platform tools seems built againts glibc so running it on musl is almost impossible. Not until I discovered about patchelf. Turns out, we can use patchelf to make android platform tools binary tool (adb, fastboot, etc) to run on musl, with a bit of trick of course.
| --- plugins/thunar-wallpaper/twp-provider.c 2025-05-30 15:44:12.534952614 +0700 | |
| +++ plugins/thunar-wallpaper/twp-provider.c.new 2025-05-30 16:00:50.899096470 +0700 | |
| @@ -145,17 +145,6 @@ | |
| /* get the mime type of the file */ | |
| mime_type = thunarx_file_info_get_mime_type (files->data); | |
| - if (g_str_has_prefix (mime_type, "image/") | |
| - && (thunarx_file_info_has_mime_type (files->data, "image/jpeg") | |
| - || thunarx_file_info_has_mime_type (files->data, "image/png") | |
| - || thunarx_file_info_has_mime_type (files->data, "image/svg+xml") |
After did some trials and errors I found a way to build gettext library + its libintl.so library on musl. I need the library so cosmic-files will work properly. Before I finally built gettext + libintl.so, everytime I build gettext I only get libgnuintl.so instead of libintl.so. Turns out, the solution is pretty simple. I just need to rename libintl.h header file from musl build and boom, gettext build will produce libintl.so instead of libgnuintl.so.
| diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile | |
| index 578194f..887a0f8 100644 | |
| --- a/Makefile | |
| +++ b/Makefile | |
| @@ -21,7 +21,8 @@ dwl: dwl.o util.o | |
| $(CC) dwl.o util.o $(DWLCFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) $(LDLIBS) -o $@ | |
| dwl.o: dwl.c client.h config.h config.mk cursor-shape-v1-protocol.h \ | |
| pointer-constraints-unstable-v1-protocol.h wlr-layer-shell-unstable-v1-protocol.h \ | |
| - wlr-output-power-management-unstable-v1-protocol.h xdg-shell-protocol.h | |
| + wlr-output-power-management-unstable-v1-protocol.h xdg-shell-protocol.h \ |
| backtrace: | |
| #0 0x00007ffff297ad95 in pixman_transform_point_3d () from /usr/lib/libpixman-1.so.0 | |
| No symbol table info available. | |
| #1 0x00007ffff297d1d8 in radial_get_scanline_narrow () from /usr/lib/libpixman-1.so.0 | |
| No symbol table info available. | |
| #2 0x00007ffff2976b74 in general_composite_rect () from /usr/lib/libpixman-1.so.0 | |
| No symbol table info available. | |
| #3 0x00007ffff28d5a52 in pixman_image_composite32 () from /usr/lib/libpixman-1.so.0 | |
| No symbol table info available. | |
| #4 0x00007ffff67c6f31 in _inplace_spans (abstract_renderer=0x7fffecc36430, y=3, h=1, spans=0x7fffecc34a28, num_spans=1) at ../src/cairo-image-compositor.c:2547 |