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Atom & App in one executable #914

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reggi opened this issue Dec 11, 2014 · 3 comments
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Atom & App in one executable #914

reggi opened this issue Dec 11, 2014 · 3 comments

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@reggi
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reggi commented Dec 11, 2014

Would it be possible to merge atom & my app into one single executable?

Similarly to how https://github.com/crcn/nexe merges node and javascript?

@bwin
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bwin commented Dec 12, 2014

Single executable isn't possible (edit: AFAIK) because several dll'slibraries, content_shell.pak and icudtl.dat need to be distributed with the executable.
You can fake it (on Windows) with an app like Enigma VirtualBox. This way you create a virtual filesystem inside a container exe. I wouldn't recommend it though, increased memory consumption for each atom.exe process.
edit: I'm assuming with 'Atom' you meant 'Atom-Shell' in this case.

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reggi commented Dec 12, 2014

Thanks for the explanation @bwin. I was just curious why it wasn't being done, I guess that answers it, platform support.

Yes I was talking about atom-shell, strangely the binary is called Atom.

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@zcbenz
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zcbenz commented Dec 12, 2014

The structure of Chromium is not designed for putting everything into an executable, and it would take too much effort to do that. So unless that situation in Chromium changed atom-shell won't support this.

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