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		pcwalton on April 2, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Building Tiny Rust Binaries for Embedded Linux I don't agree with this. Dynamic linking is perfectly reasonable for OS libraries like kernel32.dll, for instance. Dynamic vs. static linking is a tradeoff like any other.

monocasa on April 2, 2018 [–]

Sure, but NT is a totally different story since you just aren't given another stable ABI other than linking against .dlls.

But there is a lot of value on Unixen of static linking (or only linking against VDSO equivalents).

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