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  1. wiringPi is no-longer shipped with the ability to statically link it.
  2. Many reasons but the biggest issue is people who have statically linked
  3. wiringPi into their product - for example a Pi UPS device or a Tetris-like
  4. game and not subsequently shipped their modified sources. These people are
  5. no better than common thieves with complete disregard to the conditions
  6. of the LGPL that wiringPi ships with.
  7. Additionally, many think it's a good idea to statically link wiringPi
  8. into their favourite language - like Node, and Java and other itsy bitsy
  9. little things. These people have a complete and utter disregard to what
  10. happens underneath when e.g. the Linux kernel changes on the Pi then
  11. wiringPi stops as it depends on some Pi kernel features, then the poor
  12. user get in-touch with me and I've had over 10,000 emails so-far and
  13. it's now beyond a joke.
  14. DO NOT STATICALLY LINK WIRINGPI.
  15. Gordon Henderson, March 2018.