Can it be compiled into a dynamic shared library?

[Clarissa Gazala Evanthe (ClarissaGazalaEvanthe)]

I want to make a platform service run language code but can it run via ffi so no executable needed

[Sam Gammon (sgammon)]

Yes. Elide can be used via Maven, and you can use GraalVM's shared library features with it just fine. We have several projects downstream where we are building Elide-enabled stuff via this route, so it will stay supported.

Feel free to join the Discord and let us know if you have any trouble getting it set up, or post here and we'll act quickly to fix. 👍

[Sam Gammon (sgammon)]

Clarissa Gazala Evanthe (@ClarissaGazalaEvanthe) would you be using Elide from Rust, or from where? Just curious so hopefully we can add some docs.

[Clarissa Gazala Evanthe (ClarissaGazalaEvanthe)]

Clarissa Gazala Evanthe (@ClarissaGazalaEvanthe) Sure, we'll try to add one in the next release

wow thank you very much,

Clarissa Gazala Evanthe (@ClarissaGazalaEvanthe) would you be using Elide from Rust, or from where? Just curious so hopefully we can add some docs.

I want to use it in dart because it is the only programming language I can use.
and maybe later we will opensource the program

[Sam Gammon (sgammon)]

Clarissa Gazala Evanthe (@ClarissaGazalaEvanthe) I see, so you'd want to use dart:ffi, right? Is this intended to ship to mobile or server or web? Thanks for this guidance.

wow thank you very much

Happy to help :) thank you likewise for taking the time to post a question.

[Clarissa Gazala Evanthe (ClarissaGazalaEvanthe)]

yes i want to use ffi, i plan to implement on server and mobile,

and maybe continue the code editor project for android

this is a project from my team:

https://github.com/globalcorporation/global_studio_developer_app

the project allows coding on mobile but requires linux chroot and to be able to access linux chroot requires root so maybe if elide can run on shared it will be more interesting

[Sam Gammon (sgammon)]

Got it. Thanks for sharing this example, Clarissa Gazala Evanthe (@ClarissaGazalaEvanthe). I'll get back to you with ideas.

[Clarissa Gazala Evanthe (ClarissaGazalaEvanthe)]

if it is true that it can be compiled to a 100% shared library, it might be more interesting because developers can code javascript / python / whatever that can be run by elide anywhere. especially on android, because if using native executable requires root, and is not efficient

[Sam Gammon (sgammon)]

Yes, it can, but we'd need to apply some configurations to make it work. I see you are targeting Android. I think that is possible. Elide doesn't need root.

[Clarissa Gazala Evanthe (ClarissaGazalaEvanthe)]

Yes, to be honest, the project I will make is not for commercial purposes, I just want to help other people who don't have enough money to buy a PC for coding, but just to introduce coding without any hassle.