From the point of view of Lua, Pallene works the same as C If you want to produce a standalone executable, at the end of the day this executable will contain a

From the point of view of Lua, Pallene works the same as C If you want to produce a standalone executable, at the end of the day this executable will contain a copy of the Lua VM. If you want to produce a library that can be "require"-ed from Lua, then you will produce a ".so" shared object file with just the Pallene functions in it.