From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2009-05-22T13:28:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Create an exe with Ruby 1.9.1

On May 20, 12:13 pm, Marc-antoine Kruzik <kadel...@kadelfek.com>
wrote:
> Lars Christensen wrote:
> > On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 9:36 PM, Marc-antoine Kruzik
> > <kadel...@kadelfek.com> wrote:
> >> I would create an exe file for a program written in Ruby 1.9.1.
> >> But Rubyscript2exe and Exerb are using Ruby 1.8.7 (or 1.8.6).
>
> > OCRA works with Ruby 1.9.http://ocra.rubyforge.org/
>
> Do you know where I can have more informations about Ocra ?
> I downloaded ocrasa, I put it in c:/ruby/bin (a 1.9.0 version) and I
> tried to compile a script containing this line :
>
> puts "Hello World"
>
> The compilation seems to be ok (I just modified the path of my ruby dir
> in rbconfig.rb "C:\LAN\..." => "C:\ruby").
> During compilation, I have had a warning because enumerable.so was not
> found.
>
> When I launch the exe file, I have an error message :
> "failed to create directory"
>
> I run on Vista, so I tried to launch the exe on XP (because the failed
> creation maybe occurs because of Vista). But I have the same problem.
>
> I looked at the code in ocrasa.rb, and I saw that the scrip use
> ENV["TEMP"] without any problem.
> So, why the exe have a problem when it tries to create a folder ?
>
> Because I suppose this bug occurs when ocra tries to extract the
> contents of the exe into a temporary directory.

I've used both 1.8 and 1.9 with ocra gem without any kind of issue.

Also, running as normal user.

Maybe you're trying to create a folder form your script?

Please try the gem version instead of the standalone one.
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Luis Lavena