I've been working on RapidForge a self hosted platform that turns scripts into webhooks, pages and scheduled jobs. RapidForge itself ships as a single binary. No dependencies. No runtime installation. You download it and run it.

I already have lua embeded into Rapidforge binary because lets admit it after certain size its very difficult to code with bash. I wanted to support mruby as well becuase I really love ruby and I think you can express complex ideas easily with Ruby . Its very ecstatic language imo.

This post is about how I compiled mruby with full HTTP/HTTPS support into a single fat binary that runs unmodified on multiple platforms installing anything.

Cosmopolitan Libc

Cosmopolitan Libc is a C library that lets you compile once and run everywhere. Binaries built with it are called Actually Portable Executables (APE). They use the .com extension not DOS COM files.…