Comment by muth02446

> Unfortunately you can't really statically link a GUI app.

But is there any fundamental reason why not?

> Also, if you happened to have linked that image to a.out it wouldn't work if > you're using a kernel from this year, but that's probably not the case ;)

I assume you refer to the retirement of coff support (in favor of elf). I would argue that given how long this obsolete format was supported was actually quite impressive.