Christopher Allan Webber <cweb...@dustycloud.org> writes: > Maxim Cournoyer writes: > >> Hi, >> >> Today I tried investigating if was possible to build Guile so that even >> its extension modules could be built in statically rather than >> dynamically loaded. I didn't succeed; even when building Guile the way >> its described by the %guile-static package in Guix (see (gnu packages >> make-bootstrap)), I would still get the following message when attemting >> activation of readline: >> >> scheme@(guile-user)> (use-modules (ice-9 readline)) >> While compiling expression: >> ERROR: In procedure dynamic-link: file: "libguilereadline-v-18", message: >> "file not found" >> >> Interestingly a static library for readline seems to have been built: >> >> /gnu/store/xxi8scxxx8g6i9h0lm57i5kc3xwcgj5r-guile-static-2.0.14/lib/libguilereadline-v-18.a >> >> One use case would be to have readline support for a statically linked >> Guile such as used for the GuixSD init ram disk; I'm currently attemting >> to troubleshoot a problem at the init prompt (Guile) and it would be >> great to have line editing support there! >> >> Maxim > > As an aside, you may want to look at 6.3 on Ian's update here: > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-user/2017-08/msg00070.html > > Maybe there can be some alignment on this work?
Thanks for sharing this! After much interesting reading, it seems that the issue of statically linking Guile modules together is a currently missing feature of Guile. It's mentioned as part of some future goals/tasks that Andy would like to happen in a future Guile [0]. I'll put an entry in my ever growing todo list, but I have many things to work on before I get there. Maxim [0] https://wingolog.org/archives/2016/02/04/guile-compiler-tasks
