packelf was inspired by the idea of Klaus D. It is used to package the elf executable and its dependent libraries into a single executable.

usage

packelf.sh <ELF_SRC_PATH> <DST_PATH> [ADDITIONAL_LIBS ...]

Requirements on the machine: touch, tar, sh and mktemp

packelf-kf.sh <ELF_SRC_PATH> <DST_PATH> [ADDITIONAL_LIBS ...]

Requirements on the machine: tar, sh and mkdir

This other version doens't extract everytime the package if already exists. Perfect for tiny packages.

how works

Generate a tar that include all the llibraries from the host, with a tiny shell script embedded use LS Preload to execute the program.

example

~ # packelf.sh `which perf` /root/perf
~ # /root/perf --version
perf version 3.10.0-1160.49.1.el7.x86_64.debug

Repository with CI that generate a release with the zip package automatically: https://github.com/Mte90/yad-static-build