[Proposal] Add compilation target

[Mohd Norhaimi Yahya]

I'm not sure the scale of work required to achieve this but I think the compilation target should be expanded to support compile Elixir to the operating system executable for eg: Linux, Windows and Mac OS. 

I know this is not a simple thing to achieve, but this could probably benefit the Elixir ecosystem. The first version will probably transpile Elixir to some other language that support native compilation, only then followed by direct compilation with LLVM. 

[Jon Rowe]

Hi Mohd

You haven't mentioned your specific usecase, but if the inbuilt mix releases (which can package your code for all those platforms mentioned already) aren't sufficient prehaps checkout burrito? https://hexdocs.pm/burrito/ Which aims to take a release and package it more portably...

Cheers

Jon

On Tue, 12 Aug 2025, at 6:34 PM, Mohd Norhaimi Yahya wrote:

I'm not sure the scale of work required to achieve this but I think the compilation target should be expanded to support compile Elixir to the operating system executable for eg: Linux, Windows and Mac OS. 

I know this is not a simple thing to achieve, but this could probably benefit the Elixir ecosystem. The first version will probably transpile Elixir to some other language that support native compilation, only then followed by direct compilation with LLVM. 

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