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> I liked the idea of distributing binary applications as well, which we needed to do in some instances, and building a binary runtime of the software was a great draw, too.

fwiw this is possible to with clojure using graalvm. Only mentioning this because of the clojure comparison in the earlier paragraph. While I do lament the JVM I haven't found a straightforward way to build statically compiled binaries with sbcl. I would love to be proven wrong though! :D

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Doesn't `(save-lisp-and-die :executable t)` [1] create static binaries?

I had a look at one of my SBCL-made binaries on MacOS, it shows this:

    ▶ otool -L  lisp-enc 
    lisp-enc:
 /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1292.100.5)
 /usr/lib/libz.1.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.2.11)

EDIT: GraalVM takes several minutes to generate binaries, and the binary may not behave the same as the JVM-based runtime, so I wouldn't recommend using that.

[1] http://www.sbcl.org/manual/#Function-sb_002dext-save_002dlis...

Yeah, you've got a dynamically linked binary.

There is a work in progress on SBCL to make it possible to create a really static binaries:

https://www.timmons.dev/posts/static-executables-with-sbcl-v...

I tried this fork and it worked for me!

Well, the example was on OSX, and it's generally not a good idea to do static linking there ;) (same on many other systems, you need minimally certain amount of dynamically linked stuff).

Blaze/Bazel rules for Lisp support building fully static SBCL binaries (except possibly for grabbing dynamic stuff that is forced by glibc). ECL also supports static linking.

Give SBCL another try for building compiled applications. If you compile SBCL from source, enable compression of standalone compiled apps.

I own a license for LispWorks Pro, which does a very good job building applications, but SBCL is also good for delivering apps.

You have this way: https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/scripting.html#wi...

and truly static executables are coming: https://www.timmons.dev/posts/static-executables-with-sbcl-v...

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