Oh I was following the same path and was mising a library or two. The result is similar to Michael's scratch image: https://gist.github.com/noteed/4155ffad2b1d1

Oh I was following the same path and was mising a library or two. The result is similar to Michael's scratch image: https://gist.github.com/noteed/4155ffad2b1d13ab17ee https://gist.github.com/noteed/4155ffad2b1d13ab17ee The resulting image for "hello world" compressed with `xz` (default options) is 1.5MB. And it runs in a chroot or with qemu too.