Syslinux - Nov 2022 - Syslinux statically linked?

Hi all,

is there a preset target somewhere or easy to activate to get a statically
linked syslinux executable on linux?

My target system might have an outdated libc which causes syslinux not to start
when dynamically linked against libc when trying to update the target system.
Shipping libc with the installer doesn't make sense for me because libc
itself
is so large meanwhile that the installer size is close to doubled in size (even
with compression)...
My hope is that the statically linked syslinux + stripping does not increase the
overall size too much.

Best regards,

Erik

31.10.2022 23:12, Erik Rull via Syslinux wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> is there a preset target somewhere or easy to activate to get a statically
> linked syslinux executable on linux?
If by syslinux you mean bios/extlinux/extlinux executable, you can build it
the same way it is built normally, by using, eg, CC="gcc -static"
option to
makefile. Eg,

  make bios CC='gcc -static'

If you want to do that after successful run of regular build, remove the above
mentioned binary and re-run make.

The same is true for bios/linux/syslinux, but this one is not used that often.

This is a general compiler question. And for syslinux, which does not use any
other external libraries besides regular libc, it is easy.

/mjt