Video of Michael Ford (@fanquake) presenting about static builds for Bitcoin Core.
He has been chipping away at this for years. Why?
Static builds bundle everything (including libraries) into bitcoind. That same bitcoind runs on basically anything that can execute a Linux
Michael Ford (@fanquake) presented an update on his multi-year effort to ship fully static bitcoind binaries:
- Static vs dynamic linking
- Splitting Guix builds
- Running on older systems
- Open questions
- An experimental LLVM-only toolchain
- Why not macOS and Windows
- Q&A
