On Jan 11, 2018, at 11:31, Vincent Habchi wrote: > Alternatively to what Ryan just mentioned, you can statically link the > executable, which means that you embed all the code the executable and its > dependencies need into the main code. This result in a bigger executable > (more code) but less bloated than a full install with has a full-blown copy > of all librairies. > > In order to do that, you can link against static archives (.a files) rather > than dylibs.
We don't want ports to link to static libraries if linking to dynamic libraries is a viable alternative.
