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fiddlerwoaroofyesterday at 9:36 PM2 repliesview on HN

sbcl can compile to a single executable (the image is embedded in the binary). From a deployment standpoint, the only real issue is if you depend on a dynamically linked C library like OpenSSL.


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mark_l_watsonyesterday at 10:41 PM

I used to do this to build command line utilities in SBCL, with millisecond initialization times. Good technique, and compress the image so executables are fairly small.

attila-lendvaiyesterday at 11:06 PM

random note: it's possible to incorporate C libs at compile time, e.g.:

https://github.com/sionescu/sbcl-goodies