Brink engineer Michael Ford (fanquake) presented an update on his multi-year effort to ship fully static bitcoind binaries, along with an overview of an experimental LLVM-only release toolchain.

In his presentation, he discussed:

• Static versus dynamic linking and trade-offs
• The previous musl libc approach
• Splitting the Guix builds into separate bitcoind and GUI containers
• Running the same binary on older glibc systems, musl-based distributions, and scratch Docker containers
• Dead code elimination and merging duplicate code
• Open questions on release strategy and CI coverage
• An experimental LLVM-only toolchain
• Why fully static macOS and Windows binaries are out of scope
• Q&A with the audience