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. > _______________________________________________ > Gardeners mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners _______________________________________________ Gardeners mailing list [email protected] http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
