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Depends on the project. For most of them you wouldn't need to build an executable.
by aerique 16y ago
Depends on the project. For most of them you wouldn't need to build an executable.
- jcw 16y agoI understand that. If you're making software for yourself, for a business, for deployment on a web server, or for fellow hackers, it's not an issue. However, if you want to make end-user software (games, for example), you don't want to require the user to have a CL installed, or have an executable with a 20mb overhead (see XONG and other games written in CL). Is that more reasonable than what I said earlier?
- jules 16y agoIs 20mb overhead really that bad these days? I'm on a 5 year old computer and currently have more than a gigabyte of free memory.
- aerique 16y agoThat's a lot more reasonable, thanks. I've been trying various approaches to this problem myself but haven't converged on the best cross platform solution yet: * http://www.aerique.net/software/etotp/ http://www.aerique.net/software/etotp/ (needs a nice index page) * http://github.com/aerique/okra http://github.com/aerique/okra (see examples) The Lispbuilder-SDL people have been working on this as well: * http://code.google.com/p/lispbuilder/wiki/StandAloneExecutables http://code.google.com/p/lispbuilder/wiki/StandAloneExecutab... If I could spare the money I'd try out LispWorks (you'd have to pay for each seperate platform IIRC). I partly agree with the size considerations but only for mobile platforms. What's 20mb for a normal machine?