On Fri, Oct 02, 2015 at 04:29:09PM +0200, FRIGN wrote: > On Fri, 2 Oct 2015 14:21:57 +0000 (UTC) > Richard <r_j_humphr...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > > Hey Richard, > > > - looking further ahead; has there been any thoughts towards a > > staticallylinked/musl-based X11 server? Is it feasible to simply take > > the xorg sources and compile those with static linking or does that > > not work (or would it be philosophically incompatible)? suckless obviously > > has some useful tools like 'st' and 'dmenu' ready to go once X11 is > > available. I ask because the finest browser ever written is obviously > > 'surf', but worryingly surf depends on webkitgtk; which depends on gtk; > > which in turn might lead back to glibc,glib etc. > > This is not possible, as the xserver uses dlopen(3). You can't use > dlopen in a statically linked application. > The status of compiling the xserver with a dynamically linked musl > is unknown to me. >
You can build Xorg against musl (at least dynamically linked) with a little bit of patching. There's Gentoo's musl-overlay or Alpine if you need "inspiration" for the patches. WKR Hinnerk
