From: James Tucker <jftucker@...>
Date: 2007-10-31T03:06:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Experiences with Exerb?

I've had good experiences with small apps and exerb, a couple had extensions and strange require semantics, and exerb (mkexy) managed reasonably well.

Ensure that you do require / load all sources and extensions when you use mkexy, sometimes it can be prudent to make a command line or environment option to ensure that this happens. (Depending on your app)

We used 1.8.6 from the standard one-click IIRC, and it worked just fine.

Some stuff we've loaded without issue (off the top of my head):
- Camping
- Sockets + SSL
- win32ole
- various other pure ruby gems

I did have an example rakefile around somewhere which ran mkexy etc to perform a 'compile', but I can't find them. The process is simple however, again, if I remember correctly:

mkexy my_ruby_script.rb
# assuming all files loaded correctly on the above run...
exerb my_ruby_script.exy

start my_ruby_script.exe

Good luck!


Luis Lavena wrote:
> I'm dropping this here since there isn't too much information about
> Exerb [1]
> 
> There is also RubyScript2exe [2] but this is different, since instead
> of use stub executable to unpack your application in a temp folder it
> replaces Ruby VM with a custom build that hook Kernel#require and some
> other calls to make it run transparently without unpacking.
> 
> Ok, after the brief introduction, I'll like to know if there are users
> out there that used Exerb  and wich version of Ruby (last time I used
> it was with Ruby 1.8.2/4).
> 
> Exerb 0.4.3 supports 1.8.6, but fails to compile with patchlevel 111
> (which indicate it requires a previous release).
> 
> Documentation about this project is scarce, and all the docs are in
> Japanesse (at least something more than README).
> 
> Thanks in advance for the feedback, looking forward to heard from
> others about this.
> 
> Luis
> 
> [1] http://exerb.sourceforge.jp/index.en.html
> [2] http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/rubyscript2exe/
> 
> 
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