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On recent enough versions of supported implementations (currently,
GNU CLISP 2.49, CMUCL 2015-11, and SBCL 1.2.17), and with a recent
enough ASDF (3.1.2 or later), you can create a statically linked
Lisp executable image that includes all the C extensions
(wrappers and any other objects output by compile-op
)
as well as your Lisp code — or a standalone application executable.
This makes it easier to deliver your code as a single file.
To dump a statically linked executable image, use:
(asdf:load-system :cffi-grovel) (asdf:operate :static-image-op :example-software)
To dump a statically linked executable standalone application, use:
(asdf:load-system :cffi-grovel) (asdf:operate :static-program-op :example-software)
See the ASDF
manual for documentation about image-op
and program-op
which are the parent operation classes that behave similarly except
they don’t statically link C code.
Implementor’s note: There is also an operation
:static-runtime-op
to create the statically linked runtime alone, but it’s admittedly not very useful except as an intermediate step dependency towards building:static-image-op
or:static-program-op
.