I meant that rust itself links dynamically to system libraries. But libraries built by rust are not supposed to be dynamically linked by programs.

At least at this moment. So for now I don't see alternatives to have same packaging guidelines  as for Go.

-Igor Gnatenko

On Jul 13, 2016 11:05 AM, "Alexander Bokovoy" <abokovoy@redhat.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, 13 Jul 2016, Igor Gnatenko wrote:
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>> Currently it's not possible for dynamic linking...
>
> Why?
>
> Dynamic linking is supported by Rust and according to its documentation,
> is enabled for system libraries on Linux by default.
>
> Can you explain why you are claiming it is not possible to enable
> dynamic linking.
>
>
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 9:29 AM, Stefan Nuxoll <stefan@nuxoll.me> wrote:
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>>> Rust supports dynamic linking, would it be worth investigating that
>>> route instead of copying the proposed Go guidelines? I'm not against
>>> static linking at all costs, but it would make package maintenance
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