I work for VCV, which also ships for Linux. I don't find it an issue at all, since the build system is a Makefile supporting Mingw64/MSYS2 on Windows, Mac, and

I work for VCV, which also ships for Linux. I don't find it an issue at all, since the build system is a Makefile supporting Mingw64/MSYS2 on Windows, Mac, and Linux. We statically link everything except glibc, which we've decided to dynamically link to glibc 2.23 (meaning that Ubuntu 16.04 is the oldest we support). We've had no problems with this approach, although the disadvantage is that we have to use an old version of GCC to compile the software, since I haven't figured out a way to make a new GCC version produce binaries which link to old glibc. No need for containers or anything, just make a mostly-static-except-for-glibc binary.