From: Lyle Johnson <lyle@...>
Date: 2002-09-18T01:27:53+09:00
Subject: Re: FXRuby and exerb.rb?

coma_killen@fastmail.fm wrote:

> Anyone know if FXRuby apps can be packed up to a single exe with
> exerb.rb so that they can execute stand-alone (ie without the need for
> cygwin.dll etc)?
> 
> Anyone done this and made it work? Any special steps necessary?

I don't think it's going to work as-is with the current version of 
FXRuby because during the FXRuby module initialization I call the C 
function rb_f_require() directly in a few places. Part of the magic of 
"exerb" is that he overrides the built-in "require" method to look 
elsewhere (in the executable), but since I call rb_f_require() directly 
it doesn't take advantage of this hook.

What I will try for the next FXRuby release is to replace my direct 
calls to rb_f_require() with something that mimics a "require" from the 
Ruby interpreter (e.g. using eval or something). This should work. If it 
does, I'll also provide a HOWTO and a list of all the files one might 
want to list in their RBC file.

Hope this helps,

Lyle

P.S. Yes, you will get a huge executable when you roll FXRuby into it ;)