generate-application

Function

Package: excl

Arguments: application-name destination-directory input-files &rest rest&key allow-existing-directory application-files application-administration application-type copy-shared-libraries copy-file-function debug image-only pure-files purify runtime-bundle... build-lisp-image keyword arguments...

See delivery.htm for a complete description of the issues and functionality associated with this function. Note that this function is only available in Enterprise versions of Allegro CL.

This function writes a collection of files to destination-directory. In theory, all the files needed to deliver an application will be in that directory when generate-application completes (but you should test that carefully).

Note that this function calls build-lisp-image and like build-lisp-image, this function does not inherit from the currently running image (except for the defaults for certain arguments).

The required arguments:

The keyword arguments:

See delivery.htm for a complete description of this function.

The documentation is described in introduction.htm and the index is in index.htm.

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Created 2000.10.5.