[erlang-questions] Making a minimal distributable program in Erlang.

[Frank Muller]

Do you think it's possible to package this minimal distribution in one
excutable?

Imagine we can ship a whole release in one binary (like in Go).

/Frank

Wed 20 sept. 2017 at 16:23, Joe Armstrong <erlang@REDACTED> wrote :

> Thanks everybody for you help - I got it down to 5.5MB in 9 files
> Relocated as follows. I've also packed/compressed the libraries
>
> Here are the files that are needed
>
> %% DEST/bin/erl.exe                     120320 bytes
> %% DEST/bin/start.boot                    5603 bytes
> %% DEST/erts-9.0/bin/beam.smp.dll      3346944 bytes
> %% DEST/erts-9.0/bin/erlexec.dll        162304 bytes
> %% DEST/erts-9.0/bin/inet_gethost.exec   45568 bytes
> %% DEST/lib/compiler-7.1.ez             409091 bytes
> %% DEST/lib/kernel-5.2.ez               384730 bytes
> %% DEST/lib/sasl-3.0.4.ez               106278 bytes
> %% DEST/lib/stdlib-3.4.ez               913013 bytes
>
> This seems to work :-)
>
> Cheers
>
> /Joe
>
> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 2:24 PM, Dmitry Kolesnikov
> <dmkolesnikov@REDACTED> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > On 20 Sep 2017, at 13.35, Stu Bailey <stu.bailey@REDACTED> wrote:
> >
> > "As an afterthought - it would be *very nice* to have a program which
> > makes a minimal distributable program for Windows/Mac/Linux."
> >
> >
> > This program is called relx.
> >
> > It generates a release package which are deployable to any vanilla linux
> or
> > other vanilla os.
> > The usage of Docker-image-with-Erlang complicates the process of
> > distribution.
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > Dmitry
> >
> >
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