There's a brief coverage of some of the problems with this idea in http://www.openwall.com/lists/musl/2012/12/08/4 The relevant part is this bit: "But now you're potentially using two different versions of libc in the same program; if implementation-internal data structures like FILE or the pthread structure are not identical between the 2 versions, you'll hit an ABI incompatibility, despite the fact that these data structures were intended to be implementation-internal and never affect ABI. Even without that issue, you have issues like potentially 2 copies of malloc trying to manage the heap without being aware of one another, and thus clobbering it." It's worth reading the whole thread as there a couple of other directly relevant bits. I've wanted to do the same as you in the past, but the number of possible (/probable) issues was quite discouraging. On 14 Jul 2016 11:04 am, "Jason Ramapuram" wrote: > Hello there, > > Is it at all possible to link musl's libc.a statically into a shared lib? > After a lot of trying I either get relocation errors (when using musl-gcc > built on say centos7) as such ( > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/38251344/musl-fails-to-link-libc-a-into-shared-library) > or hidden symbols not being defined like below (when using Alpine linux) : > > /home/buildozer/aports/main/musll/src/musl-1.1.12/src/ldso/x86_64/tlsdesc.s:36: > undefined reference to `__tls_get_new' > /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-alpine-linux-musl/5.3.0/../../../../x86_64-alpine-linux-musl/bin/ld: > tgt/Linux-x86_64/mylib/lib/mylib.so: hidden symbol `__tls_get_new’ isn't > defined > /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-alpine-linux-musl/5.3.0/../../../../x86_64-alpine-linux-musl/bin/ld: > final link failed: Bad value > collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status > Makefile:58: recipe for target ‘tgt/Linux-x86_64/mulib/lib/mylib.so’ failed > make: *** [tgt/Linux-x86_64/mylib/lib/mylib.so] Error 1 > > I understand this might conflict when someone tries to link against this > and libc.so from a binary, however would it be possible somehow to mangle > all the libc calls internally inside the shared lib? Is there a tool that > would be able to do this? It would be really nice to have a portable shared > lib that has libc built in. > > >