is it correct that there is a --static option for native-image that's supposed to build a standalone executable? if so, has anyone tried this on windows?

I have tried this in relation to the issue you posted, that doesn’t seem to be enough. still needs c++ redist

thanks, may be the graal folks might "improve" this in the future though.

I’m skeptical if it even does something with that option on Windows

the binary didn’t seem to increase in size

Not sure how static related to Windows. I know with Rust if you compile to static it can run on a from scratch docker, but that's still using the linux kernel underneath.