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You could generate an executable with a pruned image. At least with the commercial Smalltalks.

Since I cannot edit my comment any longer.

For example, this is how VisualWorks Smalltalk does it (Application Delivery chapter):

www.cincomsmalltalk.com/main/Documentation/VisualWorks/AppDevGuide.pdf

Can anyone tell us how cumbersome it is to do the same thing with the free Smalltalks?

GNU Smalltalk is script based and while it's got support for images you don't have to use it if you don't want to. You can write a viable program by just creating a script with #!/usr/bin/gst at the top.

It also comes with Seaside, which is a pretty nice web app framework, and will run out of the box. Instructions here:

http://smalltalk.gnu.org/blog/bonzinip/seaside-development-g...

Neat, thanks for the pointer. Can you speak to what another commenter said about GNU Smalltalk being a not-particularly-great implementation?

All I have is anecdata, and stale anecdata to boot, so it would just be misinformation. I do see that the last release was two years ago, though.

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