Thanks, it looks promising. If I understood correctly, I build a static perl with -Uusedl and my dependencies with -Dextras so that they're statically built also. I've just tried to put the YAML::XS module in-Dextras and it didn't build with some mysterious "Failed" CPAN message. So I stuck YAML::XS into the ext/ dir before building it and it worked...!

...well, apparently. I'm still getting this error when I test to see if my new static Perl has the module linked to it: 

perl -MYAML::XS -E ''
Can't load module YAML::XS::LibYAML, dynamic loading not available in 
+this perl.
  (You may need to build a new perl executable which either supports
  dynamic loading or has the YAML::XS::LibYAML module statically linke
+d into it.)
 at localperl/lib/5.24.2/YAML/XS.pm line 20.

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...but I'm pretty sure I saw LibYAML being compiled during make (I did make LINKTYPE=static actually). Why is my static perl trying to Dynaload the module??

In reply to Re^5: Compiling C program with a Static Perl by rodd
in thread Compiling C program with a Static Perl by rodd

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