Re: deploying lua application as a single ``executable''

[askok@...]

What's against using temporary files, if they are deleted 
after the application is finished?

I've done some tests with what I called "cocooning"; 
making Lua applications into self-sufficient entities on 
all OS X (easy), Linux, and Win32. Nothing that can be 
currently used, but the concept was tested and working, 
including bundling the necessary dynamic libraries with 
the application (without need to install them anywhere, 
neither Linux nor Win32).

- asko


On Sun, 23 Jul 2006 16:31:46 +0100
 "Adam D. Moss" <adam@gimp.org> wrote:
> Vyacheslav Egorov wrote:
> > Adam D. Moss wrote:
> > > I was going to paste the code that I use but it's so
> > > specific to me that it'd be more confusing than helpful 
> > > -
> > > but really it's only about 70 lines and nothing very
> > > spicy.
> > >
> > > --Adam
> > Have you managed to solve "dll-in-zip" problem? That is 
> > I want to load 
> > dlls into memory directly without creating temporary 
> > files.
>
> Oh no, not at all.  That is a very hard (though not 
> impossible)
> problem.  My apps are basically scripts+data, and these 
> live
> in zip-like resource files -- there's no app-specific
> platform-specific code included in these, that's all 
> driven by
> a generic C engine with its own dependencies.
>
> --Adam