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Absolutely, but it’s not even embedding that I had in mind. I want to be able to produce fully statically linked binaries, because in my experience that is the

Absolutely, but it’s not even embedding that I had in mind. I want to be able to produce fully statically linked binaries, because in my experience that is the only truly portable binary solution on Linux. It’s a trade off for sure, but it’s something I’ve found useful for running on e.g. Raspberry Pi. For SBCL, the two main approaches I’ve seen are: a) use a patched version of SBCL that is statically linked or b) build against an old glibc and hope for the best (which sadly doesn’t work on my musl libc-based distribution). I guess the third approach is distribute source and compile on the device—this is what I’m actually doing, but it seems a little silly to recompile every time, even if it’s the same architecture. And keep in mind this is just my wishlist of functionality. It’s not necessary and I don’t expect it, but it would be really convenient.

bo-tato 3y ago
easiest solution I found was building SBCL targetting an old glibc using zig as the c compiler: CC="zig cc -target x86_64-linux-gnu.2.28" LD="zig cc -target x86_64-linux-gnu.2.28" zig bundles in all the glibc headers, so I think it should build on musl libc-based distro for more complicated programs with native dependencies there is (https://github.com/Shinmera/deploy https://github.com/Shinmera/deploy) or guix has a lot of CL libraries already and it's fairly easy to write packages for others, you can specify all dependencies with guix and use guix pack to get a .tar with all dependencies you can unpack and run on any other linux box
- schemescape 3y ago
  I was wondering if compiling via Zig would work. Also, thanks for the Guix tip—I will give that a try! I think native dependencies would require something like this (which I believe uses Deploy to solve part of the problem): https://www.timmons.dev/posts/static-executables-with-sbcl.html https://www.timmons.dev/posts/static-executables-with-sbcl.h...

bo-tato 3y ago

easiest solution I found was building SBCL targetting an old glibc using zig as the c compiler: CC="zig cc -target x86_64-linux-gnu.2.28" LD="zig cc -target x86_64-linux-gnu.2.28" zig bundles in all the glibc headers, so I think it should build on musl libc-based distro for more complicated programs with native dependencies there is (https://github.com/Shinmera/deploy https://github.com/Shinmera/deploy) or guix has a lot of CL libraries already and it's fairly easy to write packages for others, you can specify all dependencies with guix and use guix pack to get a .tar with all dependencies you can unpack and run on any other linux box

schemescape 3y ago
I was wondering if compiling via Zig would work. Also, thanks for the Guix tip—I will give that a try! I think native dependencies would require something like this (which I believe uses Deploy to solve part of the problem): https://www.timmons.dev/posts/static-executables-with-sbcl.html https://www.timmons.dev/posts/static-executables-with-sbcl.h...