From: Ethan Price <nahteecirp@...>
Date: 2006-07-31T07:20:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Executable Issues

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On 7/30/06, Skeets <skillet3232@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> hi all,
>
> i'm creating a program and i'd like it to run as a standalone
> executable on any of the various platforms.
>
> i dev in linux, but my first program is for a windows friend - yeah, i
> have some.  ;-)
>
> i'd like to create an executable for windows - and i understand
> rubyscript2exe can do exactly that.  however, i also understand that
> the program user would still have to have ruby installed on their
> computer, in addition to the the executable i would create.



Not that I have experienced. I've sent exe's compilied with rubyscript2exe
to other people on using Windows that did not have Ruby installed, and they
never noticed a problem. I've only compiled on Windows for Windows though,
and it is looking like from the website that you can't compile a .exe for
Windows when under Linux (this seems to be confirmed by a program I just
compiled under Ubuntu with rubyscript2exe. It gave me a script, not a .exe).

Hope that helps,
Ethan Price

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