A co-worker was curious to use my interactive fiction player, Status Line. He's using "nixos" and he rebuilds large parts of it from source, from scratch, every time before launching into the operating system. At any rate, his setup can't run the Linux binary because his doesn't have some set of dynamic libraries that Pico-8 is expecting. Steam apparently has a similar issue which is fixed by something called "steam-run" which kind of tricks Steam into seeing a "typical" Linux environment. That method is not working for Pico-8 exported binaries, it seems.

Is there a way to export a 100% static-linked binary?