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Painless relocation of Linux binaries–and all of their dependencies–without containers.

19 mentions on Hacker News by 15 people: 4 stories, 15 comments · first 2018-02-01 · latest 2026-01-26

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  1. Exodus ( https://github.com/intoli/exodus ) used to be good for this but is giving me a Python error these days.
    comment by fdgdd · 2026-01-26 · in The Holy Grail of Linux Binary Compatibility: Musl and Dlopen
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    Exodus – Painless relocation of Linux binaries and all of their dependencies
    story by microflash · 2025-07-11 · 0 comments
  3. …./your-binary`. (may include typos, from memory) A great tool for this used to be https://github.com/intoli/exodus - not sure if it still works. Disclaimer: Also please don't do this with network-facing services, security applies, etc.pp. b
    comment by wink · 2024-11-19 · in The tragedy of running an old Node project
  4. …dependency files in the process of making a binary able to be moved from one OS to another. Exodus: https://github.com/intoli/exodus This is why I'm saying your resulting docker image is incredibly fragile and something I would never…
    comment by gbN025tt2Z1E2E4 · 2024-02-03 · in A lesson in dockerizing shell scripts
  5. …or containers that have limited package repositories or where I don't have root access. [1] - https://github.com/intoli/exodus
    comment by foob · 2022-11-25 · in Jqjq: Jq Implementation of Jq
  6. Exodus? Exodus – relocation of Linux binaries–and all of their deps–without containers - https://github.com/intoli/exodus
    comment by pricci · 2021-12-22 · in FreeBSD Jails for Fun and Profit (2020)
  7. I'll just drop these here as they might be useful to you https://github.com/xxh/xxh https://github.com/intoli/exodus
    comment by O_H_E · 2021-12-20 · in Exa - A Modern Replacement for ls
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    story by pabs3 · 2021-12-05 · 65 comments
  9. I have used exodus to do this in the past. https://github.com/intoli/exodus
    comment by efrecon · 2020-12-01 · in Oasis: a small statically-linked Linux system
  10. …that "exodus" is useful (across Linux anyway -- the systems have to be "reasonably" homogenous). https://github.com/intoli/exodus
    comment by ratboy666 · 2018-08-30 · in CLI: Improved
  11. …goal for the tutorials to build upon. [1] - https://github.com/awslabs/aws-serverless-express [2] - https://github.com/intoli/exodus [3] - https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/ [4] - https://aws.amazon.com/api-gateway/
    comment by foob · 2018-05-26 · in Building a YouTube MP3 Downloader with Exodus, FFmpeg, and AWS Lambda
  12. For relocatable ELF binaries, there's also https://github.com/intoli/exodus
    comment by chx · 2018-05-16 · in Tarballs, the ultimate container image format
  13. I think you should look at https://github.com/intoli/exodus > Painless relocation of Linux binaries–and all of their dependencies–without containers. > Exodus handles bundling all of the binary's dependencies, compiling a statically linked…
    comment by chx · 2018-05-12 · in A static binary rewriter that does not use heuristics
  14. This is awesome! The how it works section was an interesting read. https://github.com/intoli/exodus/blob/master/README.md#how-i...
    comment by ivanfon · 2018-05-03 · in Exodus – Painless relocation of Linux binaries without containers
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    Exodus – Painless relocation of Linux binaries without containers
    story by gadcam · 2018-05-02 · 5 comments
  16. …tool which facilitates the packaging and relocation of dynamically linked binaries is interesting: https://github.com/intoli/exodus "Painless relocation of Linux binaries–and all of their dependencies–without containers."
    comment by buildbuildbuild · 2018-05-02 · in Running FFmpeg on AWS Lambda for 1.9% the Cost of AWS Elastic Transcoder
  17. …spent quite a bit of time googling that exodus thing (way too ubiquitous), and I think this is it: https://github.com/intoli/exodus
    comment by mynegation · 2018-03-29 · in A Crude Personal Package Manager
  18. …repositories, and then use Exodus to repackage single applications to run in microcontainers. - [1] https://github.com/intoli/exodus - [2] https://intoli.com/blog/exodus-2/
    comment by foob · 2018-03-28 · in A Crude Personal Package Manager
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    Exodus – Painless relocation of Linux binaries without containers
    story by foob · 2018-02-01 · 6 comments