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I'm sorry if I'm missing this, but what's the distribution story? Does it produce stand-alone binaries? In other words, can you just distribute the generated binary without requiring the user to install a runtime package or a bunch of libraries or whatever?

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It produces standalone binaries. I'm not certain the cross compilation story is in place yet though.

To expand on that, it produces dynamically linked binaries so you do need libevent, libpcre, libgc etc. when you want to run crystal binaries. We hope to get the number of runtime dependencies down in the future.

But, Also you can try static linking :-)

--link-flags="static"

The output binary is bigger than dynamic linked and it would needs some dev libraries before compile.

Sure, it's going to be bigger. Not a problem, as long as it works. :-)

Requiring the user to install a separate bunch of dependencies adds a huge amount of distribution friction vis-a-vis just shipping a stand-alone application bundle, especially in this day of app stores. Being able to avoid that is very important, IMO.

Probably anyone reading this isn't going to be daunted by having to install some extra stuff, but for the average user it's a real pain.

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