Build a dynamically linked binary on linux

[asdil12]

[WardCunningham]

Is there some advantage to being dynamically linked?

I see the industry moving away from this as just another opportunity to fail. See golang, for example.

[WardCunningham]

Blame traces the choice of static back to: https://github.com/WardCunningham/morse/pull/3

[asdil12]

For languages like go and d this may be true but for c/c++ it actually has been the opposite in the last years. Static binaries are are less and less well supported. Most distributions don't even package the .a files for most of their libraries so you can't even build on that distros.

But if you are concerned about static building, it might make sence to add a second target m-static that will drop out a static binary. Providing prebuilt binaries for download from your website might be the only real usecase for static binaries.

[asdil12]

Go and D will actually build dynamically linked binaries that only link against glibc.