Re: Questions about standalone application behavior

Dear Kyle,

On Sun, 22 Sep 2013 18:53:34 -0500 (CDT)
Kyle Marple <[email protected]> wrote:

> 3. Is it possible to compile an executable that can run on a system without SWI
> installed?
> 
> I would like to distribute binaries for my project, but the compiled executables
> still rely on libswipl.dll (on Windows). 

	could you bundle this in your distribution ?

> Additionally, the DLL must match the
> executable, insofar as a 32-bit executable requires a 32-bit libswipl.dll, so a
> person with only 64-bit SWI installed can't run the 32-bit binary. Is there a
> way to remove this dependency?
> 

	
	this is a work-around rather than a solution, but if you are developing on 64 machine,
	you could probably install on it Swi for both 32 and 64 and create 2 different executables. 

	there might well be people on the list that distribute/create executables with bundled Swi using standard installers,
	does anyone care to share ?

        The pack infrastructure could also be extended towards this, (a) have a hook for installing
        Swi created executables onto your system, and (b) an installer that installs an "embedded" Swi along with your choice of (executable) packs.

hope it helps,

Nicos Angelopoulos
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