Gordon,

If you are sure that your dev and production environments match, then you should have same shared libraries on both, and no need for static linkage?

-Bill

On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 11:36 AM, Dan Stromberg <drsalists@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 5:28 AM, gordon <wgordonw1@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am attempting to build statically linked distributions.
>
> I am using docker containers to ensure the deployment environment matches
> the build environment so there is no compatibility concern.
>
> Is there any way to force static linking so that wheels can be installed
> into a virtual env without requiring specific packages on the host?

Maybe pass -static in $LDFLAGS?  Just a wild guess really.
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