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OpenSSL based Authenticode signing for PE/MSI/Java CAB files
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static binary with musl? #261

Closed realkarmakun closed 1 year ago

realkarmakun commented 1 year ago

Would make much easier to install osslsigncode in docker images as it would be just a binary drop in, without running package managers

mtrojnar commented 1 year ago

As such a build appears to only be useful for Docker, I consider this issue a duplicate of #233.

realkarmakun commented 1 year ago

Static binary is not necessarily need to be used with docker image and vice versa. It would certainly make maintaining musl based docker images (e.g. alpine) easier, but musl binary still has uses outside docker environment, so please don't close this.

mtrojnar commented 1 year ago

Your answer is correct, but the question it answers is wrong. The problem is not whether it is theoretically possible to use musl on x86_64 for anything other than Docker, but whether such a static build would have sufficiently popular applications to justify maintaining a distribution. Bear in mind that OpenSSL 3.0 and later use providers, which are not static.