In his post about a Telegram bot Joachim Breitner mentions compiling his program into a static binary to have it run in Amazon’s version of Linux without needing to build it inside a container. I was interested in experimenting with Amazon Lambda and having statically linked Haskell programs sounded like a great idea too, so this is a write-up of what it took to get those things working. In the end we will have a Haskell program compiling to a statically linked binary, being built quickly b...
