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Re:Win32 is the stable Linux ABI by JoshTriplett on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @02:21PM (#46436887)
The difference is that you can statically link GTK+, and it'll work. You can't statically link glibc, if you want to be able to resolve hostnames or users, because of NSS modules.
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Re:Win32 is the stable Linux ABI by viraptor on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @03:59PM (#46437921)
Static linking itself doesn't prevent modules. There's https://github.com/pikhq/musl-nscd for example
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Re:Win32 is the stable Linux ABI by JoshTriplett on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @05:00PM (#46438531)
Not inherently, but static linking to glibc will not get you there without substantial additional effort, and static linking to a non-glibc C library will by default get you an absence of NSS.
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Re:Win32 is the stable Linux ABI by account42 on Monday January 12, 2026 @08:50AM (#46588488)
You statically linked GTK+ won't work with the users UI styles though and probably won't support everyone's input methods or accessibility tools.
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