[Tinycc-devel] Building Tor with tcc dynamically [was: error: Unknown relocation type for got: 23 with -static]

[John Scott]

On Wednesday, June 3, 2020 11:16:03 AM EDT Michael Matz wrote:
> > Why is it not recommended? Because it is not well supported or just
> > because
> > shared lib, by ideology, is generally preferred?
> 
> I think the comment is indeed about the general recommendation to not link
> statically.

I recall now seeing a TODO file in Git that said static linking still needed to 
be implemented. That's clearly not the case anymore, but gave me the 
impression it was still experimental.

Except for a small change I had to make, dynamic Tor almost built fine. I had 
to make this change to Tor [1] related to inconsistently mixing enums and ints 
in declarations. As a C novice I was planning on sending this upstream, but I 
think tcc's TODO said this might be a quirk to be fixed. I'd appreciate knowing 
where the issue lies if someone more knowledgeable would look at it.

Tor also needed uint128_t, which though it isn't required by any standard 
Autoconf didn't bother checking for, and the build didn't fail until the end. 
That I will suggest to them.

[1] https://salsa.debian.org/jscott/tor/-/commit/f3eb2cef

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