Hello, sorry for the noob question, but I'm just starting out with ECL, and I can't quite find a solution for the following problem: some packages in the CL ecosystem seem to assume, that the toplevel is only evaluated during development / compilation, so by the time the final executable will have been launched all toplevel defparameters and defvars already have their precomputed values.
One such example is this bit of code: https://github.com/sabracrolleton/uax-15/blob/v0.1.3/src/precomputed-tables.lisp#L12 which gets pulled in by postmodern, for example. It reads some text files from the module's source directory and stores the result in a global variable. For image-based implementations this is not a problem, but in ECL the evaluation of this code is deferred until runtime, and ultimately fails, if executed on a different computer, where the source code of the module is not available. Which prompts the question: is it possible to instruct ECL to precompute top-level variables before translating them to C code? If not, what's the general strategy of dealing with such modules, short of patching each dependency that has this problem?
