Thank you for your answer,

I already read this discussion about this problem of packaging.
But unfortunatly my problem is that have an entire application
workin and using ruby. I really need this application to be
ruby installation dependant ... or at least reduced to
an exe with the ruby interpreter appart. And i would need
this very quickly as deadline is near.

Do you have any alternative under Windows that would achieve
that goal ?

Thank you very much.




"Patrik Sundberg" <ps / radiac.mine.nu> wrote in message
news:20020110230430.GA21372 / radiac.mine.nu...
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 07:43:13AM +0900, Carine  Abrantes wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am trying to pack into a single .exe file (i use Ruby 1.6.5 cygwin
distrib
> > under Windows2000) one Ruby application made up of several scripts that
> > connect through some 'require'.
> > I have parsed ruby-talk site in order to see what already existed to
achieve
> > this :
> >
> > - RubyWrap: Seems a good solution in my case but, I got problems when it
> > comes to linking (with gcc) the first executable (memunwrap.c + the
> > generated c file). The linker tells me that there is "illegal symbol
index
> > #{a_number}
> >
> > in relocs" with 'a_number' is a varying number. The problem comes from
> > these lines in the rbwrap.rb script :
> >
> >   # Inject wrapped data into object file
> >   wdo = ""
> >   File.open(tfilename + ".o", "r") {|f| wdo = f.read}
> >   wdo[wdo.index(matchstr), wrap_str.length] = wrap_str
> >   File.open(tfilename + ".o", "w") {|f| f.write wdo}
> >
> >
> > in method : exe_creator_uw_compile_wtdall(filewrap). When i comment
these
> > lines an executable that seems to correspond to my main script filename
is
> > created
> > but it does nothing, i don't even know if it is a valid one and if it
> > includes my packed scripts.
> >
> > - Ruby2exe: very simple to use but does not seem to support 'require'
> > handling. As my application is made of 4 .rb files that includes
libraries
> > too
> > (telnet, ftp, cgi) it is very annoying since these are not packed in the
exe
> > file.
> > One solution would be to manually inline all these dependancies in one
> > single script file but I though it would be wise to ask you if it was
worth
> > it.
> >
> > So what would be the best and simplest solution to obtain a single
> > executable (the size does not matter that much) with a bunch of ruby
> > scripts. It would
> > be great if it would embed the ruby interpreter too.
> >
> > One other thing, after spending some time reading at ruby-talks
regarding
> > this executable packaging problem i found that the speed benefit was
cited
> > as being almost the only advantage and motivation to this type of
> > manipulation.
> > I just want to add that this type of manipulation is also (and mostly)
> > required in a industrial environment. It IS necessary for Ruby to have
that
> > kind of
> > support so that it could be used by any commercial company. No company
would
> > tell its customers to install Ruby in order to make its software work,
> > and no company company would like to add one Ruby file interpreter+dlls
in
> > a simple software installation. Simplicity of use in the customer side
is
> > one of the main goals.
>
> I have looked into this a bit. Me and Robert Feldt discussed this on the
list
> some days before christmas (see the archives). As noted there this kind of
> thing would probably come along nicley when a mechanism such as RubyGems
is in
> place.
>
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