From: Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@...>
Date: 2005-06-22T08:18:12+09:00
Subject: Re: rubyscript2exe

On 6/21/05, Alex Fenton <alex@deleteme.pressure.to> wrote:
> 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
> 

Yeah, I'm playing around with that, but haven't had much luck.  :-( 
I'm specifying two libraries to be included, libTktable2.9.so and
sysvipc.so.  When I expand the resulting application, I see sysvipc.so
in the lib directory, but there's no evidence of libTktable.2.9.so.

Has anyone every tried bundling a Tk extension with Rubyscript2exe?

Thanks,
Jeo