[wxruby-users] Distributing Windows WxRuby apps

[Alex Fenton]

Eric Will wrote:
> That's very interesting, but not totally what I'm looking for. Kava
> for Perl is a total packager into an exe. Perhaps it compiles the
> bytecode and compresses the interpreter into an exe, I'm not sure.
> RubyScript2Exe is unacceptably slow, so if "extract exe and all
> libraries every time" is still the way to go, I can't use that. The
> users of my GUI apps have no admin rights on their computers so I
> can't install Ruby (or anything else). They only thing they can write
> to is a home directory on a network share.

To get round this - esp the time taken to unzip the ruby interpreter 
plus the (not small) wxruby libs plus everything else, I create a 
Windows installer using NSIS which installs a custom ruby, the ruby .dll 
and all the ruby library files needed. There's some more details and 
links to the implementation code here:

http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/wxruby-users/2008-October/004258.html

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