gleative

Easily compile your gleam projects to native executables using deno.

Installation and usage

First of all, install deno.

Afterwards add gleative to your gleam project by running

gleam add gleative

Now you have to create a file called gleative.toml in your projects root directory. Currently, this file is only used to define your compilation targets. Add the following to your gleative.toml.

targets = [
  "x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu"
]

This adds linux to your compilation targets. gleative should support all targets deno supports.

Now, you can simply run:

gleam run -m gleative

This should be executed in your projects root directory. All compiled targets can be found in ./build/gleative_out.

Using nix

If you want to make your builds more reproducible, gleative provides a flake template for nix. To initialize it, simply run

nix flake init -t github:miampf/gleative

This will create a new flake.nix as well as a gleative.toml file. Now, you can run

nix run ".#build"

to build your project.

How it works

gleative works relatively simple. First, it builds your gleam project for javascript and generates some light glue code. After that, it compiles the generated javascript code using deno as a compiler.