From: Johan Nilsson <johan.nilsson@...>
Date: 2005-01-10T20:56:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Installing ruby extensions/lib

Hi,

"Shashank Date" <sdate@everestkc.net> wrote in message 
news:41DBF2C4.40603@everestkc.net...
> Hi,
>
> Johan Nilsson wrote:
> <snip>
>
>> And, back to the real question: what tools can I use to make an 
>> installation script for this kind of thing? Is there already something 
>> available?
>
> As long as you are on Windows only, take a look at rubyscript2exe:
>
> http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/rubyscript2exe/index.html
>
> I use it precisely for this kind of packaging my app into a single 
> executable. Works like a charm. It even has a "hack on location" feature
> which is extremely useful if you have installations on machines which
> do not have ruby.

Took some time, but I've now tried it and it didn't work. I get the 
following errors when running rubyscript2exe <myscript>.rb (posting it here 
in case this is something you recognize):

Gathering files...
D:\Tools\Ruby1.8.2-14\lib\ruby\1.8/ftools.rb:67:in `initialize': Permission 
denied - C:/DOCUME~1/jni/LOCALS~1/Temp/oldan
dnewlocation.3452/lib/nmea/nmearb.rb (Errno::EACCES)
        from D:\Tools\Ruby1.8.2-14\lib\ruby\1.8/ftools.rb:67:in `open'
        from D:\Tools\Ruby1.8.2-14\lib\ruby\1.8/ftools.rb:67:in `syscopy'
        from D:\Tools\Ruby1.8.2-14\lib\ruby\1.8/ftools.rb:92:in `copy'
        from 
C:\DOCUME~1\jni\LOCALS~1\Temp\tar2rubyscript.d.3452.1\rubyscript2exe\require2lib.rb:60:in 
`gatherlibs'
        from 
C:\DOCUME~1\jni\LOCALS~1\Temp\tar2rubyscript.d.3452.1\rubyscript2exe\require2lib.rb:48:in 
`each'
        from 
C:\DOCUME~1\jni\LOCALS~1\Temp\tar2rubyscript.d.3452.1\rubyscript2exe\require2lib.rb:48:in 
`gatherlibs'
        from 
C:\DOCUME~1\jni\LOCALS~1\Temp\tar2rubyscript.d.3452.1\rubyscript2exe\require2lib.rb:47:in 
`catch'
        from 
C:\DOCUME~1\jni\LOCALS~1\Temp\tar2rubyscript.d.3452.1\rubyscript2exe\require2lib.rb:47:in 
`gatherlibs'
        from 
C:\DOCUME~1\jni\LOCALS~1\Temp\tar2rubyscript.d.3452.1\rubyscript2exe\require2lib.rb:44:in 
`each'
        from 
C:\DOCUME~1\jni\LOCALS~1\Temp\tar2rubyscript.d.3452.1\rubyscript2exe\require2lib.rb:44:in 
`gatherlibs'
        from 
C:\DOCUME~1\jni\LOCALS~1\Temp\tar2rubyscript.d.3452.1\rubyscript2exe\require2lib.rb:34
        from 
C:\DOCUME~1\jni\LOCALS~1\Temp\tar2rubyscript.d.3452.1\rubyscript2exe\require2lib.rb:31
Copying files...
Copying D:/Tools/Ruby1.8.2-14/bin/msvcrt-ruby18.dll ...
Copying D:/Tools/Ruby1.8.2-14/bin/MSVCR71.dll ...
Copying D:/Tools/Ruby1.8.2-14/bin/ruby.exe ...
Copying D:/Tools/Ruby1.8.2-14/bin/rubyw.exe ...
Copying D:/Data/scripts/posnet/utils/logcvt/logcvt.rb ...
Creating logcvt.exe ...
C:/DOCUME~1/jni/LOCALS~1/Temp/tar2rubyscript.d.3452.1/rubyscript2exe/ev/ftools.rb:52:in 
`delete': Permission denied - ap
p.rb (Errno::EACCES)
        from 
C:/DOCUME~1/jni/LOCALS~1/Temp/tar2rubyscript.d.3452.1/rubyscript2exe/ev/ftools.rb:52:in 
`rm_rf'
        from 
C:/DOCUME~1/jni/LOCALS~1/Temp/tar2rubyscript.d.3452.1/rubyscript2exe/ev/ftools.rb:46:in 
`rm_rf'
        from 
C:/DOCUME~1/jni/LOCALS~1/Temp/tar2rubyscript.d.3452.1/rubyscript2exe/ev/ftools.rb:45:in 
`each'
        from 
C:/DOCUME~1/jni/LOCALS~1/Temp/tar2rubyscript.d.3452.1/rubyscript2exe/ev/ftools.rb:45:in 
`rm_rf'
        from 
C:/DOCUME~1/jni/LOCALS~1/Temp/tar2rubyscript.d.3452.1/rubyscript2exe/ev/ftools.rb:46:in 
`rm_rf'
        from 
C:/DOCUME~1/jni/LOCALS~1/Temp/tar2rubyscript.d.3452.1/rubyscript2exe/ev/ftools.rb:45:in 
`each'
        from 
C:/DOCUME~1/jni/LOCALS~1/Temp/tar2rubyscript.d.3452.1/rubyscript2exe/ev/ftools.rb:45:in 
`rm_rf'
        from 
C:/DOCUME~1/jni/LOCALS~1/Temp/tar2rubyscript.d.3452.1/rubyscript2exe/ev/oldandnewlocation.rb:80
        from 
C:/DOCUME~1/jni/LOCALS~1/Temp/tar2rubyscript.d.3452.1/rubyscript2exe/ev/oldandnewlocation.rb:76

[sorry for the excess of information]

// Johan