Purpose of the spec directory? How to build a stanalonetl binary?

[parke]

What is the purpose of the files in the spec directory?

https://github.com/teal-language/tl/tree/master/spec

The Linux release tarball contains a standalone binary executable version of tl.

https://github.com/teal-language/tl/releases/tag/v0.13.2

How do I build a copy of this standalone binary executable from source?

[hishamhm]

What is the purpose of the files in the spec directory?

These are tests, which you can run with luarocks test.

How do I build a copy of this standalone binary executable from source?

This particular binary shipped is built using a custom script which I have not published. But the tl compiler is a pure-Lua application, which depends on other modules (argparse and luafilesystem). There are various tools that can amalgamate multiple Lua sources into a single executable; https://github.com/jirutka/luapak/, for example, is one of them, and it should be able to produce equivalent results.