The presentation will take place in Room 101 on Thursday, March 5, 2026 - 11:30 to 11:55
Nix builds hermetic binaries, but they are prisoners of the store. Running them on standard Linux distros usually ends in a cryptic "file not found" error. In this talk, we perform live surgery on ELF binaries to make them truly portable. We explore using patchelf to rewrite dynamic loaders, convert absolute paths to portable $ORIGIN lookups, and even patch Python interpreters to load system libraries. Join us to learn the dark arts of binary relocation.
