Re: How to dump Emacs and use as application snapshot?

[Jean Louis]

* Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> [2020-10-27 21:16]:
> > Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2020 20:41:26 +0300
> > From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
> > 
> > This works:
> > 
> > emacs --batch -eval "(dump-emacs-portable \"~/my-emacs\")"
> > dumping fingerprint: 
> > f5190a787b51041c110477031336a3a463d20c2fa433c129c2cc69f4fb191d71
> > Dump complete
> > Byte counts: header=84 hot=7180724 discardable=125760 cold=3356344
> > Reloc counts: hot=402727 discardable=4826
> > 
> > But this does not work:
> > 
> > emacs --batch -eval "(load-file \"~/.emacs.d/init.el\") 
> > (dump-emacs-portable \"~/my-emacs\")"
> > 
> > and this does not work:
> > 
> > emacs --batch -eval "(setq my-var \"any\") (dump-emacs-portable 
> > \"~/my-emacs\")"
> 
> The argument to "-eval" should be a single sexp.

Then it implies I cannot load my configuration into Emacs to dump
it. --batch implies -q option