Bundler

You can compile your lua program into single files using lde.

Lua files

Run this to bundle your project and all of its dependencies into a single .lua file

lde bundle

Native executables

Using lde’s C compilation support, you can compile your lua program into a native executable.

lde compile

The created executable can run without lua, lde, or any of your dependencies on the user’s system. It just works.

How does it work?

This isn’t a simple “slaps data in a linker section on an existing binary” like many single executable bundlers do (ie Bun or Deno).

It uses the native C compiler lde incorporates to create a new executable linking luajit with any files in your /target folder bundled in as bytecode alongside any native dependencies (.so, .dll).

Cross Compilation

You can also cross compile your program for different platforms using the --target flag.

lde compile --target <target>

You can read more at Cross Compilation.