Actually, funnily enough I just went through and built a semi-freestanding exe to load a jlink'd Java 9 JVM: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/cb6e81a36247563d

Actually, funnily enough I just went through and built a semi-freestanding exe to load a jlink'd Java 9 JVM: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/cb6e81a36247563d423f36df19e41f9e https://gist.github.com/anonymous/cb6e81a36247563d423f36df19... The only dependencies this particular ex has is on user32.dll and kernel32.dll so it can call LoadLibrary and GetProcAddress, but if I wasn't interacting with those I could remove those dependencies (though then the exe wouldn't be able to do a whole lot of interesting things). If you look at the file in a hex editor, it's mostly just empty space as it just has four 1k sections with a little bit of data at the start of each.