From: christopher.j.meisenzahl@... Date: 2002-08-30T01:13:51+09:00 Subject: RE: Is anybody working on a ruby compiler (rb->exe) > > >Cool... but are there any english docs on exerb? How > exactly does > > >it > > >create a binary? (the quick 10000 foot overview please) There is an English readme file included in the archive. It gives you the steps to install/configure it. Erally straightforward. The only slightly odd piece is creating a text file that the compiler uses to determine what files are needed. It looks like it just concatenates an approx 700k intrepreter with the bytecode. Hope that helps, Christopher Christopher J. Meisenzahl CPS, CSTE Senior Software Testing Consultant Spherion christopher.j.meisenzahl@citicorp.com > -----Original Message----- > From: alan [mailto:alan@digikata.com] > Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 12:09 PM > To: ruby-talk > Cc: alan > 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 , > > Phil Tomson wrote: > > >In article , > > > 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. :) > > -- > Alan Chen > Digikata LLC > http://digikata.com >