fullmoon VS makeself

You can use the excellent fullmoon framework that takes care of a lot for you

https://github.com/pkulchenko/fullmoon

Then using lua is not much different than python/flask

My goal is similar to Joseph's (a platform for local first applications using CRDTs), but the approach is slightly different, as I'm building it based on SQLite synchronization using its session extension (https://www.sqlite.org/sessionintro.html) as the encoding mechanism. I plan to incorporate this sync functionality into my web framework (https://github.com/pkulchenko/fullmoon) to allow any application built with it to become "sync-enabled" with just a couple of additional lines of code.

Found it whilst checking out a web framework specifically for redbean: https://github.com/pkulchenko/fullmoon

This may be of interest to you then: https://github.com/pkulchenko/fullmoon

I've been having a lot of fun with this developing tiny webapps using Fullmoon[1]. I love Lua, but I frequently bounce between a Windows PC and a Linux PC. Having redbean + Fullmoon has made it a breeze switching back and forth without having to deal with system Lua installs. SQLite and the thorough amount of built-ins[2] is also a dream.

[1] https://github.com/pkulchenko/fullmoon

[2] https://redbean.dev/#functions

Yes, that register patch may be needed on some Linux systems; I'll add this to the documentation.

Redbean can't use the system Lua, so it comes bundled with its own Lua interpreter (Lua 5.4; there is also work being done to allow LuaJIT or Luau to be embedded instead).

The modules need to be put in the .lua directory within redbean archive; redbean searches within its archive, so you don't need to set LUA_PATH/LUA_CPATH. I have instructions on how to get examples working included in the examples (https://github.com/pkulchenko/fullmoon/tree/more-links#examp...) section.

In terms of the size, this includes MbedTLS and SQLite, so if you don't need those modules, you can compile redbean without them, which should reduce the size considerably.

Why not try a self-extracting archive?

see https://makeself.io

Thanks for introducing Zerobrane, really looks fantastic. Also by extension introduced me to https://makeself.io/ for making Linux installations.

Yeah, I can understand that, but the same advantage doesn't easily apply to situations like Rust, where you're already quite unlikely to be building the program on your production machines. I've done the same for Python many times, actually, using pip download to retrieve dependencies and building a package that is then installed on the target machine with some makeself mess. It actually worked surprisingly well, much of the time.

edit: you might wanna check out makeself