Pros: - Portable (as long as you don't need dlopen/dlsym). If you do need to dlopen other libraries, you can run into issues on ARM mobile with mixed soft/hard

Pros: - Portable (as long as you don't need dlopen/dlsym). If you do need to dlopen other libraries, you can run into issues on ARM mobile with mixed soft/hardfp calling conventions. Otherwise you're fine if the ABI is solid. - No need to atomically update your system, as applications stand alone. - Slightly faster program startup time. Cons: - Slightly larger file size (assuming you linked glibc... doesn't apply so much to things like musl or lib43). - You can't link in OpenGL client libraries, so games will probably still need the dynamic linker.