/dartbin

DEPRECATED: use https://dart.dev/tools/dart2native instead

Primary LanguageDart

dartbin

DEPRECATION: With the arrival of dart2native, the dartbin project is no longer needed. The dart2native tool lets you easily create standalone executables for every supported platform. Those executables start and run faster, and are smaller, than anything that the dartbin project could have hoped for. I'm going to archive this project, for posterity. -- Filip

A tool for packaging Dart programs into standalone executables.

Prerequisites

  • Go SDK installed

Manual steps

  1. Generate snapshot of your app (dart --snapshot=file.snapshot file.dart)
  2. Run the source code generator (dart bin/main.dart file.snapshot)
  3. Change to the go_src directory (cd go_src)
  4. Compile the Go package (env GOPATH=/full/path/to/go_src go build -v)
  5. Grab the go_src/go_src file – that's your executable – and rename it to your liking.

For other architectures (like Windows when you're running this on Mac, or vice versa), you'll need to:

  • provide a matching executable (dart bin/main.dart --dart /full/path/to/dart.exe file.snapshot)
  • run the Go compilation with the correct GOOS and GOARCH variables (env GOPATH=/full/path/to/go_src GOOS=windows GOARCH=386 go build -v)