How to create a statically linked position independent executable ELF in Linux?

Question

I have a working position independent Linux freestanding x86_64 hello world:

main.S

.text
.global _start
_start:
asm_main_after_prologue:
    /* Writ         


        

Answer 1

You want to add --no-dynamic-linker to your link command:

$ ld main.o -o main.out -pie --no-dynamic-linker

$ file main.out
main.out: ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, not stripped

$ ./main.out
hello

so I guess when I achieve what I want, I will have a valid interpreter, and I'm so going to use my own minimal hello world as the interpreter of another program.

I am not sure I understood what you are saying correctly. If you meant that main.out would have itself as its interpreter, that's wrong.

P.S. GLIBC-2.27 added support for -static-pie, so you no longer have to resort to assembly to get a statically linked PIE binary. But you'll have to use very recent GCC and GLIBC.