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mzc does not produce stand-alone executables from Scheme source code. The compiler's output must always be loaded into MzScheme (or MrEd or DrScheme). See also section 4.
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.