That could be ok. I know Julia implementation is huge now, that is, with
all the standards libraries (that are optional, at least the GPL ones,
and if you want to hack more).
The core, needed parts, libjulia and libLLVM or whatever might, not be
too big (by todays standards..). And you need those already installed as
shared libraries (that you could bundle with?)? [This will still ty you
to one architecture (say x86, not that there really many options either
way), but so would say compiling C code.]
Maybe build_executable.jl doesn't bundle those libraries for you with
your code (and just a better way too package is needed), but what is the
point then? "doesn't require any julia source code", I guess applies to
your own code, not the julia source of the implementation (and possibly
not code in the standard libraries)?
--
Palli.
On mið 2.sep 2015 14:50, Isaiah Norton wrote:
The executable produced by that script still links against libjulia,
libLLVM, etc. (possibly statically on some platforms, but they are still
required).
On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 10:41 AM, Páll Haraldsson
<pall.haralds...@gmail.com <mailto:pall.haralds...@gmail.com>> wrote:
I didn't check.
Is this from the Wikipedia page then wrong (to you not get on
package with the runtime and LLVM included?):
In version 0.4,^[24]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_(programming_language)#cite_note-24>
a standalone "executable
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executable> that doesn't require any
julia source code" can be built with /build_executable.jl/^[25]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_(programming_language)#cite_note-25>
while by default the Julia runtime needs to be pre-installed.
On Wednesday, September 2, 2015 at 2:36:42 PM UTC, Isaiah wrote:
Search for "build_executable.jl" for the current recommendation
(it requires the Julia runtime and LLVM, so not stand-alone). It
is unlikely that the runtime or LLVM requirements will go away
in the near term.
On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 10:12 AM, Christof Stocker
<stocker....@gmail.com> wrote:
On 2015-09-02 13:51, Leff Ivanov wrote:
Is it possible or is it even planned to be able to
create native standalone executables from Julia scripts?
By standalone I mean that executable file can be used
fully by the end user without the need to install Julia.
By native I mean that Julia code is compiled ahead of
time to fast native code.
+1 for standalone executables.
I really hope it is still being discussed by the developers.
I did see a mailing-list post a while back about that topic,
so it definitively has come up before.
I do think Julia has the unique potential of being a
prototype- as well as production language (in the ML field).
It would most certainly reduce my need for Scala in industry
projects.
Then again, there are probably more pressing and interesting
issues. I have faith in the developers decisions.
(btw Go is a decent example of how to make cross-compiling fun)
