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by kragen 234 days ago
I have not been able to get usable executables out of Chez, even on Linux, although it's nice and fast when used the normal way.
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The best way I've found to make a standalone executable is to compile my scheme program into a .boot file and embed it, along with Chez's .boot files, into a small C program that then calls the scheme program.

All of the necessary functions to create such a C program documented here: https://cisco.github.io/ChezScheme/csug10.0/foreign.html#./f...

The relevant functions for this applictation are:

Sscheme_init

Sregister_boot_file_bytes

Sbuild_heap

Senable_expeditor (if you want to use Chez's builtin REPL)

Sscheme_start

Sscheme_deinit

I'd post an example program, but I've not got access to my development machine at the moment.

Thank you! I wonder how much extra work it is to use Racket code in such a program. (Because that was what I wanted to do.)