[SOLVED] Installing racket packages as native executables on linux

Installing racket packages as native executables on linux

Is there a way to install a racket package either:

as a statically linked native executable?
have raco install it to specific path where it can be packaged and distributed as native linux distribution package?

Solution

There are two questions here. The first one being if it's possible to create a racket package as a statically linked native executable. If you mean a single executable with all the libraries statically linked, the answer is no. You can, however, create a racket distribution of your application that you can then install on machines without racket. See https://docs.racket-lang.org/raco/exe-dist.html

The second question is if you can use raco install to install the above mentioned package and the answer is no. raco will install pkgs, libraries into the system, for use with racket but not an application in a system-wide manner.

My advice is to use raco distribute and then use a system installer get it into the target system. For arch linux, I would create a raco distribute of my application and then I would create an AUR to distribute my application to my target users.