I’m guessing not. According to man ld on macOS, the -static flag, to produce a fully static executable, is only used to build the kernel. I don’t believe fully-static executables were ever officially supported on macOS, although they would work.

For clarity it's not the chip/ARM that causes the limitation, you can recompile the kernel (it's open source) to remove the block and it'll work fine - it's just a ton of work.

Alternatively, Linux :).

It only works if you don't ever upgrade macOS. Even a patch update sometimes can break it.

Nope.

Thanks. That sucks

If you can convince Apple to change this code let me know: https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/xnu/blob/94d3b452...