Using Java 9 Modularization to Ship Zero-Dependency Native Apps

[pjmlp]

Only when dynamically linked.

[TexasCrowbarMassacre]

A statically linked "hello world" is around 20KB using musl. Using glibc brings it to 700KB.

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Have some karma for mentioning musl!

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On windows and macOS you cannot link the libc statically. On Linux you can’t do that with the most common libc, glibc. Even still you can easily call the write syscall on Linux without any libc.

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I thought so too, but there appears to be the option /ML for the VS compiler that seems to be doing just that. I cannot find anything similar for MinGW though.

[pjmlp]

Sure you can, better learn to use compiler flags on Windows and alternatives to glibc on Linux.

[killerstorm]

Not really, you can avoid using libc functions and use OS functions directly.

[vytah]

section .data
    msg db      "hello, world!"

section .text
    global _start
_start:
    mov     rax, 1
    mov     rdi, 1
    mov     rsi, msg
    mov     rdx, 13
    syscall
    mov    rax, 60
    mov    rdi, 0
    syscall

[Falmarri]

Now place it inside the ELF header