When we were doing STATICC we were linking libdw dynamically, still requiring many dependencies. THis switches to libbfd, which should massively reduce the number of required libraries.

CMakeLists.txt

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ project(Arbutils)
 add_compile_options(-Wall -Wextra -Werror)
 # We like new stuff, so set the c++ standard to c++20.
 set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 20)
+set(CMAKE_POSITION_INDEPENDENT_CODE ON)
 
 option(WINDOWS "Whether the build target is Windows or not." OFF)
 option(SHARED "Whether we should build a shared library, instead of a static one." OFF)
@@ -49,7 +50,7 @@ endif()
 
 set(LINKS)
 if (NOT WINDOWS AND PRETTYTRACES)
-    set(LINKS ${LINKS} -ldw)
+    set(LINKS ${LINKS} -lbfd -ldl)
     ADD_DEFINITIONS(-DPRETTYTRACES=1)
 endif()
 if (SIGNAL_HANDLING)
@@ -58,7 +59,9 @@ endif()
 
 # If we want to link the C and C++ library statically, link those as well.
 if (STATICC)
-    set(LINKS ${LINKS} -static-libgcc -static-libstdc++ -Wl,-Bstatic -lstdc++ -lpthread)
+    message("Linking dependencies statically.")
+    set (CMAKE_SHARED_LINKER_FLAGS "-Wl,--as-needed")
+    set(LINKS -static-libgcc -static-libstdc++ -Wl,-Bstatic -lm -lstdc++ -lpthread -Wl,-Bdynamic ${LINKS})
 endif(STATICC)
 target_link_libraries(Arbutils ${LINKS})
 

src/Exception.hpp

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 #if !WINDOWS
 #if PRETTYTRACES
-#define BACKWARD_HAS_DW 1
+#define BACKWARD_HAS_BFD 1
 #endif
 #include "../extern/backward.hpp"
 #endif