Example of deploying dart to google compute engine without having to compile the dart-sdk from source.

dart-deploy-script.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

set +o xtrace
USER=$USER
PROJECT=dart-compute-project
INSTANCE_NAME=dart-compute
TAGS=dart
MACHINE_TYPE=f1-micro
NETWORK=default
IP=ephemeral
IMAGE=https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/debian-cloud/global/images/backports-debian-7-wheezy-v20140318
SCOPES=https://www.googleapis.com/auth/userinfo.email,https://www.googleapis.com/auth/compute,https://www.googleapis.com/auth/devstorage.full_control
PERSISTENT_BOOT_DISK=true
AUTO_DELETE_BOOT_DISK=true
ZONE=us-central1-b
STARTUP_SCRIPT=startup-script.sh
GCUTIL="gcutil --service_version=v1 --project=$PROJECT"

$GCUTIL addinstance $INSTANCE_NAME --tags=$TAGS --zone=$ZONE --machine_type=$MACHINE_TYPE --network=$NETWORK --external_ip_address=$IP --service_account_scopes=$SCOPES --image=$IMAGE --persistent_boot_disk=$PERSISTENT_BOOT_DISK --auto_delete_boot_disk=$AUTO_DELETE_BOOT_DISK --metadata_from_file=startup-script:$STARTUP_SCRIPT

rc=$?
if [[ $rc != 0 ]] ; then
  echo "Not able to add instance"
    exit $rc
fi

startup-script.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# Add an addtional source for the latest glibc
sudo sed -i '1i deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie main' /etc/apt/sources.list

# Update sources
sudo apt-get update

# Download latest glibc
sudo DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get -t jessie install -y libc6 libc6-dev libc6-dbg git screen unzip

# Download the latest dart sdk
wget http://storage.googleapis.com/dart-archive/channels/dev/release/latest/sdk/dartsdk-linux-x64-release.zip -O dartsdk-linux-x64-release.zip 

# Unpack the dart sdk
unzip -d / dartsdk-linux-x64-release.zip

# Make the sdk readable 
chmod -R go+rx /dart-sdk

# Add dart bin to global path
echo "export PATH=$PATH:/dart-sdk/bin" > /etc/profile.d/dart-env.sh