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mzc does not generally produce stand-alone executables from Scheme source code. The compiler's output is loaded into MzScheme (or MrEd or DrScheme). However, see also section 4 for information about embedding code into a copy of the MzScheme (or MrEd) executable.
mzc does not translate Scheme code into similar C code. Native code compilation produces C code that relies on MzScheme to provide run-time support, which includes memory management, closure creation, procedure application, and primitive operations.