[ruby-talk:02208] Re: Ruby strict mode and stand-alone executables.

Hi,

From: Yukihiro Matsumoto
>     on 00/03/25, "Conrad Schneiker" <[e-mail]> writes:
>
> |Some people want Ruby to have a strict compile mode.
> |
> |I (and probably many other Ruby users) would also like some sort of means
> |whereby a stand-alone executable could be produced so that one could run
> |Ruby programs on machines that don't have Ruby and the needed modules
> |installed on them. (I understand that you would not be able to
arbitrarily
> |import modules at run time, but for a great many applications, this would
be
> |OK.)
>
> There can be several ways to make stand-alone executable from Ruby
> program.
>
>   * dump core after loading everything, then use undump; this scheme
>     is used by Emacs and Perl.

Do you know if anyone has tried this with Ruby yet? Is there a Ruby
module/method that dumps its process image?

Do you know if there a generic/portable (perhaps GNU) undump program
available?

Does anyone know if there is some kind of portable technique (and least in
the UNIX world) for turning a process image into a stand-alone executable?

Conrad