= moonbeam
Moonbeam is a (rather sketchy) way of compiling a single Lua script into a single executable.
== compiling from source
First, clone the repository and its submodules with:
```
git clone --recurse-submodules <repo-url>
```
Then, navigate to the repository folder. To build your own copy, you can run `just bootstrap` to bootstrap a copy of the moonbeam executable.
== usage
```
moonbeam script.lua
```
This creates a standalone executable file called `script` that you can run that does exactly the same thing that `script.lua` does.
```
moonbeam -c script.lua
```
This outputs a C program (`script.c`) that contains the source code of `script.lua` inside it, stored in a heap-allocated string. The C program (which
includes the Lua interpreter) then interprets this string as Lua source code,
which you can compile as a standalone executable by compiling with `cc` and linking with Lua. See `template.c` for an example of what this output might
look like.
Run `moonbeam -h` for more information