Can't say how long I wanted to do this

run_it.sh

#
# Still a lot to do, but it works!
# Been looking at how to do this for a long time
#
# Todo: good quality ecryption
# Todo: in memory resources (right now it is self extracting)
# Todo: check windows, should work but probably needs some tweaking
#
# Many thanks to node-webkit for examples and zlib for including minizip
#

# --extracting sets up node to check if it is a self-extracting zip archive
./configure --extracting
make
# path to a module, main field in package.json will be executed on start
zip -r bundle.zip $PATH_TO_MODULE
cat node bundle.zip > bundled_node
chmod +x bundle_node
# run our bundled app
# respects the $TMPDIR convention
TMPDIR=$WHERE_TO_EXTRACT ./bundled_node

updated.md

see http://bmeck.github.io/ for prebuilt binaries

• NODE_CHANNEL_FD existing will prevent re-extraction
• spawn(process.execPath) is going to cause re-extraction, use fork or set NODE_CHANNEL_FD instead