Building self-contained executables with Gleam
summary
Demonstrates how static_erlang and gleepack produce static Erlang binaries and bundle a Gleam or Erlang project into a single self-contained executable, using linker tweaks and a late switch to clang that finally succeeds after two weeks of failing builds. Shows a working static Erlang binary and a self-extracting wrapper approach, and outlines a proof-of-concept that embeds the BEAM VM, extracts an OTP release into memory and replaces file opens via runtime hook — full VM-wrapped in-memory execution is WIP.
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