Edit: Factor/Deployment

= Overview = Factor contains a stand-alone application deployment tool that compiles a vocabulary down to a native executable which runs the vocabulary's MAIN: hook. Deployed executables do not depend on Factor being installed, and do not expose any source code, and thus are suitable for delivering commercial end-user applications. = Deploy tool documentation = - [[http://docs.factorcode.org/content/word-MAIN__colon__%2Csyntax.html]] - syntax to define the main word of a vocabulary - [[http://docs.factorcode.org/content/article-tools.deploy.html]] - [[http://docs.factorcode.org/content/article-ui.tools.deploy.html]] - graphical front-end = Examples = Some of the demos in %extra/% are ready to be deployed: - %"tetris" deploy% - %"hello-unicode" deploy% - %"terrain" deploy% - requires OpenGL 2.x To look at the deploy settings used, run %deploy-tool% instead of %deploy%. This opens a new UI window. Look at [[Factor/Examples]] for more. = How it works = The deployment tool works by bootstrapping a fresh image, loading the vocabulary into this image, then applying various heuristics to strip the image down to minimal size. Sometimes when you run the deploy tool, "staging images" get generated. These are minimal Factor images which do not contain your application, just parts of the library. Different staging images are generated for different deployment configurations. All applications you deploy will share the same set of staging images. This process can take a few minutes. Once you've deployed your app once, you won't have to wait again, unless you delete them manually, or run the %factor.sh% script to update Factor from the [[Factor/Repository]]. If you update Factor from the repository yourself, be sure to delete staging images since they may now be out of date. = Deploying apps that use FFI = Deployed applications require [[Factor/C library interface|externally linked libraries]] to be present in the host OS, application folder, or .app bundle on Mac OS X. Factor includes the runtime library libfactor by default. = Additional topics = - [[Factor/Deployment/Single file Deployment on Windows]]

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