On Developing Native Windows Executables

Which technology stack do you recommend for developing native windows executable开发者_如何学JAVA (has GUI), other than .NET stack?

Other that C++ (MFC, ...) some could be named; yet which one is mature and pragmatic enough?

1. Delphi 7?
2. Common Lisp (Which one is proper for developing GUI?)?
3. Scheme?
4. Qt or wxXXX stack?

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For native Win32 GUI apps, I've found nothing that beats Delphi. (Your question asks about Delphi 7, but please note that all versions of Delphi (including the latest - Delphi 2010) can produce single, standalone .EXEs).

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Python is a good choice for some sorts of problems, and you can package python programs into a single .exe using py2exe.
Here is a nice py2exe tutorial: http://www.py2exe.org/index.cgi/Tutorial

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Tcl/Tk is very mature, has a small footprint, is easy to learn and use, and uses native widgets on Windows and the Mac. Plus, it has a deployment mechanism second to none by way of starpacks, starkits and tclkits. You can either create a single-file executable (starpack) that embeds a very full featured virtual filesystem, or a two-file solution of a platform-specific runtime engine (tclkit) with a platform-independent application file (starkit).

It's downside is that it's low on "flash" -- there's not a lot of support for transparency, multimedia, animation and fancy graphics. So, depending on whether or not you need a lot of eye candy it may or may not be the right choice for you.