[Openmcl-devel] create an executable from openmcl

[Christophe Rhodes]

Gary Byers <gb at clozure.com> writes:

> Suppose that we had a little shell script (not unlike the following)
> that would prepend an arbitrary file on the front of something that
> was presumed to be an openmcl heap image (observing alignment constraints)
> and saved the result to a third file.  (We can also stretch our imaginations
> a bit and ignore the fact that this looks suspiciously like something that
> was hastily cobbled together ...)

:-) In a somewhat similar vein, sbcl offers a utility that allows one
to make a fasl file "executable", again by prepending some shell
script magic to the fasl, and ignoring the fact that it looks like
something that was hastily cobbled together.  This can be moderately
useful because loading the concatenation of several fasl files is
equivalent to loading the individual ones in sequence.

<http://ww.telent.net/diary/2003/2/#21.68739> and
sbcl/contrib/sb-executable/ in SBCL's cvs, if anyone's interested.

Cheers,

Christophe
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