[wxruby-users] Distributing Windows WxRuby apps

[Eric Will]

I saw, but I can't install anything on these machines.

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Eric Will / rakaur @ malkier

On Mar 30, 2009, at 2:49 PM, Alex Fenton <alex at pressure.to> wrote:

> 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
>
> a
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