Knowing the Starpack technology
As mentioned in the previous section, the starkit file has a small header containing the initialization script that executes the externally available tclkit. What would happen if we replaced this header with a binary code of Tclkit? In such cases, we would get a Starpack, a self-contained starkit, and a Tcl interpreter—all in one single file. This is the solution we are searching for in this chapter—a standalone executable file without any dependencies that does not require installation or configuration!
A Starpack file can be created in the standard way using the wrap command, but with the additional flag -runtime, which specifies what Tclkit binary should be put together with the starkit that is being produced. ...
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