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Adding --static flag for building static executables with stack?

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#3,420 opened on Sep 7, 2017

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Description

A great question was posed in the comments to this article https://www.fpcomplete.com/blog/2016/10/static-compilation-with-stack, although it seems to have been left unanswered.

Mainly, if it could be possible to have a --static flag in stack, that would set the flags necessary for building a statically linked binary, and perhaps be aware of the crtbeginT and suggest/link to the proposed fix.

This issue https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/issues/1032 which is still open, seems to be somewhat related, but has been left without any activity (except for a few semi-related comments) for quite a while.

Any thoughts if it is even feasible to begin such work?

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Research direction
Investigate how stack currently handles compilation flags, particularly static linking. Look into passing static to GHC and linking with necessary objects like crtbeginT. Review related issue #1032 and existing PRs for guidance.
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haskell
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clibuild system
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3
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HaskellStack
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