Hi,

The problem with the approach described below is that it's just for the
Mac. A more general solution would be in keeping with Squeaks cross
platform portability. I wonder if it's possible for a general solution or
if each platform needs it's own specific solution (much like the
FileDirectory class hierarchy) wrapped in an abstract class.

The other issue is creating a "script" that removes all unwanted components
(like the development environment) from Squeak and then setting up your
"application object" to launch once Squeak has loaded.

Peter William Lount
peter at smalltalk.org
http://www.smalltalk.org

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From: agree at carltonfields.com
To: beoneel at mindspring.com; squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
Subject: RE: Runtime package
Date: May 6, 1999 9:06 AM

Hans has a web-page addressing this issue.  I have no idea how useful or
current these materials are in practice, however, and they do require
making a separate build of the VM as a shared library, and packaging things
as a resource under a fairly straightforward stub program.

	http://www.heeg.de/~hmm/squeak/StandAlone.html

-----Original Message-----
From:	MIME :beoneel at mindspring.com Sent:	Thursday, May 06, 1999 10:12 AM
To:	squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
Subject:	Re: Runtime package

Hi,
  On the mac this wouldn't be too bad, ie, the image could live in a
resource and on startup the vm could read that.  Windows executables
have some sort of resource idea too, right?  If so this could also
work for them.  I don't have a solution for unix short of just
compiling it into the vm and then stuffing it into memory.  That
sounds a bit ugly :-(  I don't know about other systems.

cheers

bruce

Mark Guzdial writes:
 > There was some talk along time ago about building some way of merging
the
 > VM with an image (appending the image after the VM).  Has anyone pushed
 > further on this?  We've started distributing Squeak 'executables' (lots
of
 > things stripped out except for pieces needed for specific applications),
 > and being able to distribute a single file would be great!
 >  > Mark
 >  > At 12:39 AM -0700 5/6/99, Shiro Ogawa wrote:
 > >     Is there any way to make some executable or  image, so that an
 > >application window only starts up? I am new to Squeak but have  been
using
 > >Digitalk Smalltalk where you can create runtime executables.     Thanks
  > >Shiro Ogawa
 >  >  > --------------------------
 > Mark Guzdial : Georgia Tech : College of Computing : Atlanta, GA
30332-0280
 > (404) 894-5618 : Fax (404) 894-0673 : guzdial at cc.gatech.edu
 > http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/people/Faculty/Mark.Guzdial.html
 >  > 

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