http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4376

           Summary: Cannot build static binaries; running dmd with flag
                    -L-static fails to compile
           Product: D
           Version: 2.041
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: DMD
        AssignedTo: nobody@puremagic.com
        ReportedBy: jmdavisProg@gmail.com


--- Comment #0 from Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg@gmail.com> 2010-06-23 11:35:33 PDT ---
I would like to be able to generate binaries that don't depend on any external libraries whatsoever. In linux at least, when dmd creates a program normally, the resulting binary depends on various system libraries. For instance, hello world ends up with these dependencies per ldd:

linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xb783b000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0xb77fd000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0xb77d8000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0xb768c000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb783c00


Want I want, is for ldd to say

not a dynamic executable


The way to get this happen normally is to give gcc the linker flag -static. If I compile object files with dmd and then link with gcc using -static, then I can get a static binary. However, if I try and both build and link with dmd, it fails. If I run

dmd prog.d -L-static

(which as I understand it, is passes the -static flag on to gcc for the linking phase), I get the error

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgcc_s
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
--- errorlevel 1

Why having dmd use gcc to do the linking instead of my doing it directly fails to work, I don't know, but it's rather annoying. I shouldn't have to do the linking myself to get a static binary.

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Steven Schveighoffer <schveiguy@yahoo.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
                 CC|                            |schveiguy@yahoo.com
         Resolution|                            |DUPLICATE


--- Comment #1 from Steven Schveighoffer <schveiguy@yahoo.com> 2011-11-16 05:26:34 PST ---
Marking as duplicate of later bug, because there is more information there.

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of issue 6952 ***

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