From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2009-12-05T01:50:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Best way to distribute an app

On Dec 4, 10:13 am, Omar Campos <hypermeis...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>   I have tried some of the alternatives suggested, and found the
> following:
>
> 1. Rawr seems to work only on JRuby.

Yes, it's JRuby only

> 2. ExeRB had problems packing an external library used by my sample app
> (FXRUBY).

I've used exerb-mingw (manually built from GitHub) and worked without
issues packaging binary dependencies:

http://github.com/snaury/exerb-mingw

> 3. OCRA made the executable and worked perfectly.  It is simple to use,
> although the executable is quite large (2 MB to be exact) which is
> understandable, considering it includes the whole interpreter and
> dependencies.
>

Exerb will generate similar size executable, but contrary to OCRA, it
can be UPX'ed for smaller size.

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Luis Lavena