Ask HN: What's stopping Guix from building static binaries for various targets?

3 tetris11 0 8/13/2025, 9:17:49 PM

Guix can build for various different targets using `guix build --target <arch>`, and it can build entire linked libraries that can be deployed as a tarball to a target machine via `guix pack --target <arch>`...

But it can't do the one thing that Nix can do reliably and that is produce a single static binary.

What is stopping it?

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Ask HN: What's stopping Guix from building static binaries for various targets?

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