From: Robert Feldt <feldt@...>
Date: 2001-12-18T19:30:27+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:28859] Re: [IDEA] creating stand-alone versions for easy distribution etc

On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Patrik Sundberg wrote:

> i actually didn't look into your rbwrap since i recall it was windows only. at
> a closer look it might be a lot like what the python application does, in
> principle at least.
> 
rbwrap is windows-specific but not very much. The README mentions what you
need to do to make it work on another platform:

Here's what you need to do (I might have missed something...):

        * Make sure find_ruby_binaries identifies all ruby binaries needed
          to run Ruby as a stand-alone app on your platform. Current impl.
          is very Cygwin-specific (and ugly!). I plan to replace it as
soon
          as possible. Any ideas you might have are welcomed.

        * Make sure compiler can be accessed. I currently do
                system "gcc ..."

        * Make memunwrapper.c compilable, linkable and runnable.

            Check file separators. Currently assumes its "\".

            It currently uses some Windows- or Cygwin-specific API calls.
            Nothing fancy and it's straightforward to find corresponding
            calls on your platform:
                GetModuleFileNameA - to get the name of the unwrapper exe
                        This is unnecessary and I plan to take it from
argv
                        instead.
                GetTempPath - Get path to temp dir

> a description of their approach is at:
> http://www.mcmillan-inc.com/standalones.html
> 
I guess its more mature than rbwrap so probably focus on their stuff
first?

Good luck,

Robert