I would like to be able to pre-compile GWAN applications written in C, as I don't want to deploy my source code on the customer's servers.
I've read the documentation but can find no mention of how to do this. Is this even possible?
I suppose one idea is to create my functionality in a library and link to that from my GWAN script. Is that the best way?
pre-compile G-WAN applications written in C
You are right, writing your own libraries called from your scripts (servlets and/or handlers) is today's solution.
But we have worked hard to provide a better solution where all the application, including all the pre-compiled scripts and the static documents compressed and stored under the gwan/.../www G-WAN directory are also stored into the G-WAN executable.
Interpreted applications written in PHP, Go, Lua, Ruby, etc. would be compressed and encrypted, and be possibly tied to an application-defined license key to help developers sell their work.
The goal here is to make it bullet-proof for end-users to deploy custom applications, and to help G-WAN developers protect their intellectual property (source code, copyright, algorithms, etc.).
This feature will probably be publicly released next year.
First, we want to release a more general-purpose release of G-WAN, which will also be usable as a simple "Nginx on steroids" (lower RAM consumption, higher performance for al type of files, small and large) to satisfy the needs of most users.