From: Alan Chen <alan@...>
Date: 2002-08-30T01:09:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Is anybody working on a ruby compiler (rb->exe)

On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 12:52:02PM +0900, Phil Tomson wrote:
> In article <akk3ku02k6v@enews1.newsguy.com>,
> Phil Tomson <ptkwt@shell1.aracnet.com> wrote:
> >In article <H00019f008a50006@MHS>,
> > <christopher.j.meisenzahl@citicorp.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>FWIW, I just tried the exerb compiler with the latest Ruby release, it 
> >>installed with no trouble. And I got it to compile a very trivial Ruby example 
> >>and it works!  ;-)
> >> 
> >
> >Cool...  but are there any english docs on exerb?  How exactly does it 
> >create a binary? (the quick 10000 foot overview please)
> >
> 
> OK, to answer my own post, I overcame my laziness and downloaded the tar 
> file.  There is an english readme file.  It appears that this only works 
> for Windows (the _exe_ part of the name should have been an indication).  
> 
> Looks pretty straightforward on Windows, though.
> 
> I wonder how difficult it would be to get this to work under Linux (and 
> other Unices)...
> 
> Phil

Well, it cross compiles from Linux to windows out of the box. This was my
only need for it. :)

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