calling Livecode from other languages

[Ali Lloyd]

When you deploy a script-only stack as a standalone it is re-saved as a
normal stack. Not doing so at the moment results in the standalone crashing
on startup.

On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 6:28 AM Monte Goulding <monte at appisle.net> wrote:

>
> > On 5 Feb 2016, at 5:20 PM, Matt Maier <blueback09 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > So there isn't any special standalone option to compile a *.livecode file
> > into a command line app like *.exe. I just compile a standalone for the
> > appropriate system, somehow get rid of the GUI, and tell it how to
> > read/write STDIN/STDOUT?
> >
> > Is that as simple as compiling a script-only stack into a standalone, or
> > maybe setting the visible of the mainstack to false?
>
> The way to get rid of the GUI is use the -ui command line option. It would
> be nice if command line app were an option in standalone settings and we
> didn’t need to use -ui. As script only stacks don’t retain custom
> properties between sessions and the standalone settings are saved as custom
> properties I expect it would get a bit tedious to use a script only stack
> as the standalone mainstack…. not that I’ve tested to see if it works. The
> main annoyance other than -ui is extracting the binary from a mac app
> bundle but you can script that.
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