[wxruby-users] Distributing Windows WxRuby apps

[Mario Steele]

I wish to point out another option, that I've come across dealing with
something of other sorts.  PortableApps.  http://www.portableapps.com, They
use a NSIS Script, that doesn't actually install anything, but creates an
Environment to execute a program, to keep it portable.  If you look at the
contents of one of their programs, you'll see that the actual application is
stored into a folder named apps, while the actual executable used to launch
the application, is just an NullSoft Installer executable.

Specifically look at this page, at Step 4:
http://portableapps.com/development

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Eric Will <rakaur at malkier.net> wrote:

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