From: Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@...>
Date: 2008-04-13T14:43:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Rubyscript2exe windows executables, on Linux.

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K. wrote:
| I've downloaded rubyscript2exe, and:
|
| $ ruby rubyscript2exe.rb HelloWorld.rb
|
| will create a file called HelloWorld_linux which runs on linux.
|
| The problem is that I'm trying to make a single .exe for windows
| users.
|
| I rm -rf'd the script, and then used ruby gems to install
| rubyscript2exe (although it was stored only on my /var partition and
| had to be moved to my /usr/local/bin) and it produced the same result.


Compile Ruby with the MinGW32 cross compiler tools. AS to how to obtain
it, check your distro (`yum install mingw32-tools`, or some such thing).

The wxWidgets (*not* the wxRuby folks!) have an entry on how to use
MinGW32 to compile a windows binary:

See http://wiki.wxwidgets.org/Cross-Compiling_Under_Linux

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