From: Alex Fenton <alex@...>
Date: 2005-06-22T16:40:36+09:00
Subject: Re: rubyscript2exe


> AF> Use Wx rather than Tk myself, so not sure exactly what form these
> AF> additional widgets come in. But, assuming they're .so / .dll files, they
> AF> can be bundled into the rubyscript2exe executable using the
> AF> environment variable RUBYSCRIPT2EXE_DLLS at "compile" time.
> 
> At least BWidgets are pure TCL and this will not work as it would
> require a patch to the TCL library to take the ruby scripts out of the
> exe file instead from a file path specified by the TCL_PATH (or
> whatever it's name is).

OK, thanks, that's interesting to know. Can be a bit difficult using an
installer (I've been using NullSoft's) with rubyscript2exe as the
actual path from which the ruby script is run is not the installed
directory (/usr/local/..., C:/program files/...).

Might be worth trying tar2rubyscript in combination with rubyscript2exe
in this situtation. First create the tar containing the whole directory 
layout
needed, including the Tcl libraries, then make a rs2exe executable from
that so that the tar file can run without an installed ruby. This was the
author's suggested solution when I had a problem bundling .xpm icon
files that were required by an app.

cheers
a