README.md

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description	Statically Linked Binaries (.pkg_type == static)

Static

{% hint style="success" %} Build Profile

• Prefer mimalloc over other musl allocators (Not Always¹)
• Prefer LTO
• Prefer PIE {% endhint %}

{% hint style="success" %} Sources

• Most (around 90%) of our static packages are built from source using standard build tools.
• The rest are fetched from upstream like GitHub Releases etc. {% endhint %}

{% hint style="warning" %} Nomenclature

• *source* : Implies it was built from source

• *official* : Implies it was built/fetched from official source

• *stable* : Implies it was likely fetched from upstream source & not built from source {% endhint %}

• If the binary is a desktop app i.e. needs desktop integration, it needs to go under ./packages

Footnotes

1. We have had reports of users running into segfault errors on old hardware ↩