From: Alex Fenton <alex@...>
Date: 2005-06-22T08:15:35+09:00
Subject: Re: rubyscript2exe

Joe Van Dyk wrote:
> I have a GUI program written in Tk that I'd like to distribute using
> rubyscript2exe.
> 
> However, the application uses a couple Tk extensions:
> 
>   - TkTable -- needs to be installed and  have a Ruby shared library
> built for it  (in ext/tk/lib/tkextlib/tktable)
>   
>   - BWidget -- Just needs the Tk extension installed.
> 
> Is there any way I could pack all that stuff into one executable?

Use Wx rather than Tk myself, so not sure exactly what form these
additional widgets come in. But, assuming they're .so / .dll files, they
can be bundled into the rubyscript2exe executable using the
environment variable RUBYSCRIPT2EXE_DLLS at "compile" time.

Erik's web page describing how to use the tool give a good description
and examples of using this.

http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/rubyscript2exe/index.html#3.3.1..Pragmas

This works well for me bundling a sqlite.dll (the core library, not the
ruby bindings) into an executable

cheers
a