From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2011-04-16T22:30:23+09:00
Subject: Re: How to make exe of ruby program on windows?

On Apr 16, 6:50 am, Jarmo Pertman <jarm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I remember that i saw some time ago a newer tool, which created .exe
> files on Windows from Ruby scripts without doing the extraction into
> temp directory as orca is doing when running the .exe. I'm unable to
> find that tool now. Does anyone else know about that tool i'm
> referring to?
>

Yes, is called exerb, is not new:

http://exerb.sourceforge.jp/index.en.html

Coming directly from Japan ;-)

But to work with newer RubyInstaller, you will need the MinGW "port"
of it.

A tutorial on getting that working is here:

http://vert.igino.us/2011/01/05/exerb-101-building-windows-executables-with-ruby/

Written by Gordon Thiesfeld, the author of Pik.

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Luis Lavena