Yeah, that's pretty cool. Did I see correctly that the executable "hello
world" it makes is 23 megs? Well, one thing at a time, I guess. :-)

Steve

On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 08:09 -0800, josh giesbrecht wrote:
> Paolo Amoroso wrote:
> > James Bielman has submitted to the sbcl-devel mailing list a patch for
> > making SBCL generate single-file standalone executables:
> > 
> >   patch: standalone executable redux
> >   http://article.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.steel-bank.devel/6230
> > 
> > He has tested it on x86/x86-64 Linux and PPC/Darwin, and there is
> > Win32 code waiting to be tested (pending some other fixes).
> > 
> > Having the possibility of generating standalone executables is a
> > frequently requested feature from new Lisp users.
> > 
> > 
> > Paolo
> 
> Hooray!  While I know that other packaging options are often just as 
> good in more release environments than some would expect, I for one do 
> appreciate this.
> 
> A standalone .exe does cause far fewer headaches when it's one small 
> tool thrown into a (somewhat messy) scripted procedure, for example. 
> Relying on a .dll in Windows can cause problems when you have multiple 
> copies of the same named .dll in your path (as I found out when I tried 
> to remove a dependancy from cygwin in a build process in a past project 
> by having a copy of the dll checked in with the .exe).
> 
> And besides, if people can build a "hello, world!" without requiring a 
> .dll, maybe they'll finally stop calling CL a "scripting language" (or 
> worse, "interpreted")!
> 
>   - josh g.
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