Dear Stian, I have managed to make a binary created from tar2rubyscript/rubyscript2exe that runs on another computer, provided that it uses the same live Linux distribution ... so maybe , if you're developing essentially for demonstrative purposes ( program sth. for an academic thesis etc...), you can distribute a Live Linux distribution alongside your application on a CD... I know that's not a mass-market solution yet :( I will try what I can do for Windows next week. Actually, I sometimes think the response frequency distribution to individual threads on this list has changed somewhat to the worse: say, a year or more ago, my impression is that generally, the average number of answers to a request used to be smaller, but many experienced users tried to contribute a lot of information per post. Now the number of posts has dramatically increased for some threads, but there many people just agreeing or disagreeing on some tangential aspect, whereas many threads get drowned - and unanswered - in a hundred responses to these big threads (sigh). Best regards, Axel -------- Original-Nachricht -------- Datum: Wed, 16 May 2007 16:53:53 +0900 Von: Stian Haklev <shaklev / gmail.com> An: ruby-talk / ruby-lang.org Betreff: Re: Ruby distribution woes - bz2 lib and mongrel > Thank you all. I guess what I need is to sit down with a computer that > has never had Ruby installed and figure out which files it's trying to > access and then supply them - whether in the Ruby script or as an > installer. > > I also need to figure out how to compile the bzip2 extension for > Windows. I read something about using mingw on Linux that could work. I > guess if I did it in cygwin, the binaries would be huge because they > would contain the entire cygwin package? > > Thank you > Stian > > > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- Ist Ihr Browser Vista-kompatibel? Jetzt die neuesten Browser-Versionen downloaden: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/browser