> Apple does not believe in static linking, their SDK doesn't have a way to work around this
Apple isn’t alone this regard; as far as I can tell Windows does this too because they don’t commit to a stable syscall interface like Linux does. That being said, you may find Apple’s official stance on statically linking your binaries amusing: https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/qa/qa1118/_index...
In general, Apple links a lot of things to their OS releases: while their toolchains are distributed separately they’re practically tied to one or two major OSes unless you engage in hacks to make them continue working. And the languages which they exercise significant control over (namely Swift and Objective-C) are often tied to OS versions.
Apple isn’t alone this regard; as far as I can tell Windows does this too because they don’t commit to a stable syscall interface like Linux does. That being said, you may find Apple’s official stance on statically linking your binaries amusing: https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/qa/qa1118/_index...
In general, Apple links a lot of things to their OS releases: while their toolchains are distributed separately they’re practically tied to one or two major OSes unless you engage in hacks to make them continue working. And the languages which they exercise significant control over (namely Swift and Objective-C) are often tied to OS versions.