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Static Linking With Ghc

In order to compile a given source code using static linking

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-- Main.hs
main = putStrLn "Hello World!"

there is a need to pass two additional flags to ghc like

  • -optl-static
  • -optl-pthread
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$ ghc -optl-static -optl-pthread --make Main

then

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$ file Main
Main: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), statically linked,
for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, BuildID[sha1]=62d1682f378af2f994758e737ba9dc0b24fc06aa,
with debug_info, not stripped

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