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> Some platforms (Windows I see you !) don't permit to link binary modules to a static executable

If you have the source code for these modules, you can statically link to them too. I've done this myself for Windows a few times, and it works pretty well in my experience.

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Sure, but it becomes a pain when you have several dependencies. Take LuaSocket, for example: it has binary modules, Lua scripts, and folder-related requirements to deal with.

Static linking itself is not a problem for Lua.

If all you want is a tiny script that checks the weather or downloads a file, having to manually link or bundle all those pieces just to ship a standalone executable is a lot of work. That's one of the problems clx aims to solve.

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