[convolvatron]

you could probably use the unexec tooling

[larsbrinkhoff]

I don't see how unexec would help with "decoupling the core from Emacs" since the core is written in Emacs Lisp.

[convolvatron]

you could make a standalone executable. I was assuming that people didn't want to start emacs to run it. if its just because...emacs is just morally offensive and one doesn't even want it running under the covers, I dont how to help you.