Bundles payload executable with shared libraries.
Executable and shared libraries are unpacked at runtime.
Uses ldd to find shared libraries, then embeds them into an executable using objcopy.
Libraries are found at runtime by setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
$ echo 'main = putStrLn "Hello Haskell!"' > hello.hs
$ ghc hello.hs
[1 of 1] Compiling Main ( hello.hs, hello.o )
Linking hello ...
$ ./hello
Hello Haskell!
$ ldd hello
linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007ffc8415f000)
libgmp.so.10 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgmp.so.10 (0x00007f939f7e0000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007f939f4d7000)
librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007f939f2ce000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f939f0ca000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f939ed01000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x0000561cd841e000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f939eae3000)
$ ./packer.py hello hello.static
$ ./hello.static
Hello Haskell!
$ ldd hello.static
not a dynamic executable
Note: distributing shared libraries in this way does not change the individual libraries licenses. Make sure that those licenses allow for this.