Open NickSeagull opened 3 years ago
Static linking at this point in time is very very painful with Haskell. It works for simpler use-cases but fails the moment your project gets a tad bigger.
On the project I work atm we go around that by using the lambci/lambda:build-provided
Docker image. We install the extra libraries needed and then copy them and ship them together with the bootstrap
executable.
That would also be a great thing to document, as the errors that arise from getting it wrong are very unpleasant, to say the least.
Per #41, some users are having trouble with static linking on MacOS, this is because MacOS doesn't support it.
A MacOS user should work in "development mode" without adding the cabal options related to static linking, and only add them when ready to deploy by building with
stack build --docker