This is a question for people who distribute Ruby programs to folks
that don’t have Ruby. In particular, Windows users.
How do you do it?
I figure that there must be a way to write a self-extracting archive for
Windows using tools that are compatible with open source development.
Under Unix I’d use Makeself. Makeself creates a shell script with binary
data at the end (corresponding to a .tar.gz archive). This archive is
extracted and then Makeself runs any program of your choosing (e.g. the
installer). And then cleans up after itself.
Is there some equivalent program for Windows that has a friendly license?
Cheers,
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This is a question for people who distribute Ruby programs to folks
that don’t have Ruby. In particular, Windows users.
Is there some equivalent program for Windows that has a friendly license?
Go to the RAA and grab rubyscript2exe. It is great! If you compress
your dll’s before you create the exe you can get a really small,
self-contained executable.
Using the above method, I have been able to create an exe of a
medium-complexity FXRuby program that was only around 2MB.
Jamey Cribbs
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Can I do the same with ruby-gtk? (The answer is no, I’m afraid
Gergo
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On 0310, Jamey Cribbs wrote:
Go to the RAA and grab rubyscript2exe. It is great! If you compress
your dll’s before you create the exe you can get a really small,
self-contained executable.
Using the above method, I have been able to create an exe of a
medium-complexity FXRuby program that was only around 2MB.
Go to the RAA and grab rubyscript2exe. It is great! If you compress
your dll’s before you create the exe you can get a really small,
self-contained executable.
Using the above method, I have been able to create an exe of a
medium-complexity FXRuby program that was only around 2MB.
Can I do the same with ruby-gtk? (The answer is no, I’m afraid
You are right, it’s not as easy with ruby-gtk. You can get fairly close
though. Using upx to compress the gtk runtime dlls and python dlls, I
was able to create an installer for a Python PyGTK application that was
5-6MB in size. This included everything the user needed to run the app
on Windows including the GTK2 runtime.
Jamey
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