alt Hacker NewsYou can "package" all .so files you need into one file, there are many tools which do this (like a zip file).
But you can't take .so files and make one "static" binary out of them.
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fc417fc802 • today at 11:38 AM
Well not a static binary in the sense that's commonly meant when speaking about static linking. But you can pack .so files into the executable as binary data and then dlopen the relevant memory ranges.
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> But you can't take .so files and make one "static" binary out of them.
Yes you can!
This is more-or-less what unexec does
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21394916
For some reason nobody seems to like this sorcery, probably because it combines the worst of all worlds.
But there's almost[1] nothing special about what the dynamic linker is doing to get those .so files into memory that it can't arrange them in one big file ahead of time!
[1]: ASLR would be one of those things...