Freeze statically

[Sebastien Dudek]

Hi everyone!

Let me explain you my big adventure. So I trying to make a static
python executable using the native Python freeze. I've modified the
file Modules/Setup.dist using this perl cli : perl -pi -e 's!(^#
\*shared\*)!*static*\n$1!' Modules/Setup.dist

Then ./configure, make && make install

If I'm using my python interpreter to build with freeze a simple
project that we can call "hello world". It works perfectly but it is
still : "dynamically linked (uses shared libs)". So modifying the
Makefile using '-static' for linking, I hopped I could make it static.

But... it fail :
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/home/fluxius/Python-2.7.2/./Modules/pwdmodule.c:156: warning: Using
'setpwent' in statically linked applications requires at runtime the
shared libraries from the glibc version used for linking
/home/fluxius/Python-2.7.2/./Modules/pwdmodule.c:168: warning: Using
'endpwent' in statically linked applications requires at runtime the
shared libraries from the glibc version used for linking
/usr/bin/ld: dynamic STT_GNU_IFUNC symbol `strcmp' with pointer
equality in `/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/
4.5.2/../../../libc.a(strcmp.o)' can not be used when making an
executable; recompile with -fPIE and relink with -pie
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [hello] Erreur 1
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Help me please!! =)

 

[Sebastien Dudek]

Actually, there is a solution but not very clean.

I was surprise by two différent tools:
- Statifier (but it needs to be compiled without ASLR)
- And ErminePro which is very powerful to transform dynamic
executables to static.

But if someone is aware about compiling python code to static more
properly, I'm in!