 <p>Any reason you can't statically link at least the standard libraries in? You should have a working program and the benefits of the standard libraries without external dependencies.</p> <p>Also, does your toolchain/IDE provide differentiate between "standalone application" and "linux application"? The IDE for the AVR32 has that distinction and is able to generate either a program that runs within the embedded linux environment or a standalone program that basically becomes the OS.</p>