under unix there is one 'crazy' way to make single executable:
1. put all required scripts (including standard library) into single
directory D
2. create a startup script and put it into directory D too
3. make image of one of available file systems (fat/ext/etc) and fill it
with content of directory D
4. make 'executable binary' script as combination of 2 parts: header and
tail.
tail is a image of directory D
header is a shell script which doing 3 things:
1 - mount tail (skip header in 'executable binary' and mount rest)
2 - run startup script in mounted FS image
3 - unmount tail after startup script ends
:-)
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Yuri Burger,
Senior Researcher
Kiev Zoral Development Center
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