Indeed it does. The only downside of this is that the resulting binary is (at least in my case) almost tripled in size compared to Pyinstaller (5MB vs 14.6MB).

Indeed it does. The only downside of this is that the resulting binary is (at least in my case) almost tripled in size compared to Pyinstaller (5MB vs 14.6MB). But I can live with that. Still doesn't statically link C libraries (or at least I didn't find the setting for it), or other libraries for that matter. Pyinstaller binary build depends only on: libdl.so.2, libz.so.1 and libc.so.6. Nuitka binary build depends on: libdl.so.2, libz.so.1 and libc.so.6 AND libpthread.so.0 (for the loopback mounts I suppose). The one that always creates problems is libc.so.6, which usually is not present 4 year old systems...