[Gambas-user] gambas 0.63

[Rob]

On Wednesday 06 August 2003 03:46, Radoslav Dejanovic wrote:
> Make Gambas executable that doesn't need end user to install
> whole Gambas package in order to run it? (yes, I know I'm bitching
> on that one... ;)

This is a problem that requires two steps to a solution...

1. A statically linked optional version of the Gambas interpreter (maybe 
statically linked only with the lib.gb libraries, since I don't think you 
want your Gambas standalone executables to include all of Qt and mysql ;) )

2. A packaging method that combines the existing Gambas archive format with 
the above statically linked interpreter.

This has been done for Perl, Tcl and other languages so I imagine it can be 
done for Gambas.... but I don't know how, myself.

As a side note, we have talked about embedded database functionality and there 
is an "embedded" version of Qt against which maybe Gambas could be linked.... 
Not for the mainstream executable, but for a special version of the Gambas 
interpreter for embedding.

Rob