My (admittedly, considerably more humble) attempt is http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2012/08/13/how-statically-linked-programs-run-on-linux/ http://eli.thegreenpla

My (admittedly, considerably more humble) attempt is http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2012/08/13/how-statically-linked-programs-run-on-linux/ http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2012/08/13/how-statically-linke... It takes on an even simpler program, namely: int main() { return 42; } But digs in the C runtime, Linux kernel and touches on compilers, linkers and loaders. Hope it's helpful