Re: How to build statically-linked rekall?

On Tuesday 14 September 2004 23:53, Daniel M. wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> How can I build statically-linked version of rekall, so that
> it won't depend on shared libraries like libc etc.? It seems
> that '--enable-static' option to 'configure' is not enough -
> rekall still complains about missing shared libraries.

This is going to be just about impossible. Internally rekall loads stuff 
dynamically (drivers and parts like forms, reports, ....), so you'd have to 
modify the code pretty heavily to link everything into one lump.

>
> The reason for wanting statically-linked rekall, is that my
> attempts to compile a working program on Debian unstable were
> unsuccessful, as the resulting application segfaulted when you
> tried to do even the most basic things, which may mean that
> there is some incompatibility between Debian's shared libraries
> and the libraries rekall needs, so I want to compile it on other
> distribution, and then copy it to Debian.
>
>
> Daniel.
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