From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2002-09-18T01:55:11+09:00
Subject: Re: FXRuby and exerb.rb?

Hi,

At Wed, 18 Sep 2002 01:27:53 +0900,
Lyle Johnson 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.

Recent exerb has a trick for rb_require(), but none for
rb_f_require().  I guess it would be possible.

-- 
Nobu Nakada