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nsvd2 10 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Garbage collection for Rust: The finalizer frontie...

Static compilation and static linking are two separate things - however, Rust is both statically compiled and (usually) uses static linking of dependency libraries.

paulddraper 10 months ago [–]

You’re right. I mean static linking.

And by default Rust does not. Needs glibc.

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