[bdavis@gfortran ~]$ cat a.f print*,'hello' end [bdavis@gfortran ~]$ g77 a.f [bdavis@gfortran ~]$ ldd a.out libg2c.so.0 => /usr/lib/libg2c.so.0 (0x004ce000) libm.so.6 => /lib/tls/libm.so.6 (0x00448000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00725000) libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0x0031c000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x002ff000) [bdavis@gfortran ~]$ g77 -static a.f [bdavis@gfortran ~]$ ldd a.out not a dynamic executable