build static linked gedit with meson?

[jeremy ardley]

I want to compile a statically linked version of gedit using the upstream meson based package.

I've got the sources matching my current Debian 11 system and can do a build no problem.

What I want to do is statically link the gedit executable. I see the non-static executable is very small and there is a large library file libgedit, and using ldd I see the executable wants to call many system libs.

Target is a single statically linked executable which incorporates libgedit as well as parts of all the system libraries they call.

Meson doesn't obviously seem to support static linked executables.

Any suggestions?

Jeremy