From: Alan Chen <alan@...>
Date: 2002-09-18T02:14:11+09:00
Subject: Re: FXRuby and exerb.rb?

On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 01:27:53AM +0900, Lyle Johnson wrote:
> 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 ;)

I've been told that the CVS version of exerb fixes this with some
magic playing with overriding the rb_f_require symbol. Even with that
however, I'm having problems with trying to get FXruby working with
exerb. However, I haven't looked at it for several weeks, there may be
more CVS progress.

- alan

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