From: Eric Christopherson <echristopherson@...>
Date: 2010-04-08T05:33:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Creating an exe on Mac OS X

On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Eric Christopherson
<echristopherson@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 10:19 PM, Jesse Jurman <e.j.jurman@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Andrew Mcelroy wrote:
>>> I am confused by a few points.
>>>
>>> Are you trying to create an exe file on Mac OSX or are you trying to
>>> create
>>> a .app file in Mac OSX?
>>>
>>> If it is the latter, checkout Titanium Desktop. I am sure there are
>>> other
>>> ways, but Titanium Desktop is Open and very straight forward.
>>>
>>> Andrew McElroy
>>> TryRuby.org
>>
>> To answer your question more directly I need to create an exe file for
>> windows... The people using the application are running windows, and I
>> have had a lot of trouble installing the resources on a windows computer
>> to even compile it at home (with something like RubyScript2Exe). I know
>> it's a bit odd because unless you have an intel mac running windows, you
>> can't even run the application after compiling it, but that is what I
>> need.
>
> Ocra is a gem that can make Windows .EXEs; unlike RubyScript2Exe, it's
> still maintained and works on Ruby 1.9. I think it only runs on
> Windows. It does automatically include needed gems, but I had trouble
> including other files my program needed (although you're supposed to
> be able to do so).
>
> I don't know if your program will run on Jruby, but if so, you can use
> a tool like Rawr to bundle it into your choice of .app, .jar, or .exe.
> Again, I had trouble with it, but I'm not very experienced with Jruby
> as a whole. YMMV.
>

Oh, I forgot to mention this blog post which tells how to bundle an
app manually with Jruby:
http://spin.atomicobject.com/2008/07/02/rolling-a-jruby-desktop-application