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

[Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>]

* Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> [2020-10-27 23:14]:
> > Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2020 22:51:05 +0300
> > From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
> > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> > 
> > > > 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.
> 
> No, it implies that the syntax of the argument to -eval is incorrect.
> 
> > --batch implies -q option
> 
> Yes, but what does this have to do with the issue at hand?

dump-emacs-portable can be invoked only under --batch which implies -q
and then I do not know how to load my configuration.