On 1/14/07, Robert James <srobertjames / gmail.com> wrote:
> Robert James wrote:
> > Our app invokes some binary executables (imagine `convert image.png`).
> > In order to make deployment error free, I'd like to include them in our
> > source tree, and add the paths to the ENV['PATH'] dynamically.

If it's in the source tree, maybe you can use full paths in the invocation.

> > Is there a cross platform way of doing this?  Unix uses ':' as a path
> > separator, Windows uses ';'.

File::PATH_SEPARATOR, http://www.rubycentral.com/book/ref_c_file.html
ENV['PATH'] << File::PATH_SEPARATOR << 'new.dir'

See also File::SEPARATOR and File#join

> > Not sure how to compile cross Linux binaries, though - they're often
> > dependent on the distro and even version.  Is it enough to compile them
> > statically linked?
>
> Can anyobdy get me started with this?