Single File Apps

LDE gives you the ability to compile your lua program into single files.

Bundle your program into a single lua file

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

lde bundle

You can pass it options like --bytecode to bundle them into a bytecode file for faster startup.

Bundle your program into a native executable

This option is very interesting if you want to give users access to an executable without needing lua on their system.

You will need a compiler like gcc on your machine to use this functionality.

lde compile

This will bundle into a single lua file and then compile an executable with the lde runtime built-in to execute it.

The lde executable itself is in fact just created with lde compile!