The Nim binary dynamically links against glibc and SDL2. If you really want to statically link against a C standard library, musl works just fine: @if musl

The Nim binary dynamically links against glibc and SDL2. If you really want to statically link against a C standard library, musl works just fine: @if musl: passL = "-static" gcc.exe = "/usr/local/musl/bin/musl-gcc" gcc.linkerexe = "/usr/local/musl/bin/musl-gcc" @end Now it compiles like this (SDL2 is still dynamically loaded, +1 MB for that): $ nim -d:release -d:musl c src/nimes $ ls -lha src/nimes -rwxr-xr-x 1 def users 219K Mai 1 22:00 src/nimes*