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
