fxruby-users

[Fxruby-users] using fxruby with exerb?

[Emmanuel T. <emm...@wa...>]

Hello,

    I was wondering if there is support for the combination 
ruby+fxruby+fox as exerb script? I've had success with ruby+exerb, with 
a filesize of the binary of ~400k + my script size (plus size of 
standard library files i'm using, eg find.rb).
    Is it possible to get a single .exe or an .exe with DLLs and 
distribute a FXRuby application like this? If yes, what is then the size 
of the .exe file and related DLLs you have to ship?

    Figuring it should be a common question, i searched for quite a 
while for this, without clear answer on the net...

    thank you for any help.

emmanuel

PS: advantages of using fxruby with exerb are numerous: simple 
installation, and even more: transparent upgrade from eg ruby 1.6 to 1.8 
without the client noticing.

Re: [Fxruby-users] using fxruby with exerb?

[Emmanuel T. <emm...@wa...>]

Emmanuel Touzery wrote:

>
> PS: advantages of using fxruby with exerb are numerous: simple 
> installation, and even more: transparent upgrade from eg ruby 1.6 to 
> 1.8 without the client noticing. 

(or upgrade of fxruby versions etc)

Re: [Fxruby-users] using fxruby with exerb?

[meinrad r. <mei...@gm...>]

Emmanuel Touzery wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>    I was wondering if there is support for the combination 
> ruby+fxruby+fox as exerb script? I've had success with ruby+exerb, with 
> a filesize of the binary of ~400k + my script size (plus size of 
> standard library files i'm using, eg find.rb).
>    Is it possible to get a single .exe or an .exe with DLLs and 
> distribute a FXRuby application like this? If yes, what is then the size 
> of the .exe file and related DLLs you have to ship?
> 
>    Figuring it should be a common question, i searched for quite a while 
> for this, without clear answer on the net...
> 
>    thank you for any help.
> 
> emmanuel
> 
> PS: advantages of using fxruby with exerb are numerous: simple 
> installation, and even more: transparent upgrade from eg ruby 1.6 to 1.8 
> without the client noticing.
> 

hi, i am using fxruby with exerb without any problems and got filesizes 
of about 1.2 mb.

Re: [Fxruby-users] using fxruby with exerb?

[Emmanuel T. <emm...@wa...>]

meinrad recheis wrote:

> Emmanuel Touzery wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>>    I was wondering if there is support for the combination 
>> ruby+fxruby+fox as exerb script? I've had success with ruby+exerb, 
>> with a filesize of the binary of ~400k + my script size (plus size of 
>> standard library files i'm using, eg find.rb).
>
>
> hi, i am using fxruby with exerb without any problems and got 
> filesizes of about 1.2 mb.
>
great!
how did you do it?
can you send me a .rbc recipe? Is it like: the recipe includes the .rb 
files of FXruby, and you ship extra the DLLs of FOX? it just seems very 
complicated from here because it's nowhere written how to do it. i 
actually thought it was not possible..

emmanuel

Re: [Fxruby-users] using fxruby with exerb?

[Lyle J. <ly...@kn...>]

On Dec 11, 2003, at 2:50 AM, Emmanuel Touzery wrote:

> I was wondering if there is support for the combination 
> ruby+fxruby+fox as exerb script? I've had success with ruby+exerb, 
> with a filesize of the binary of ~400k + my script size (plus size of 
> standard library files i'm using, eg find.rb).
>    Is it possible to get a single .exe or an .exe with DLLs and 
> distribute a FXRuby application like this? If yes, what is then the 
> size of the .exe file and related DLLs you have to ship?

I haven't tried this lately, but it used to work (with earlier versions 
of exerb). If you try it and actually run into problems, please let us 
know. For that matter, if you try it and it works fine, let us know 
that too ;)

Re: [Fxruby-users] using fxruby with exerb?

[Emmanuel T. <emm...@wa...>]

Lyle Johnson wrote:

> I haven't tried this lately, but it used to work (with earlier 
> versions of exerb). If you try it and actually run into problems, 
> please let us know. For that matter, if you try it and it works fine, 
> let us know that too ;)

WOW.
sorry for the dumb questions... i just tried, it worked perfect the 
first time... i would never think it was so easy. i was sure there was 
some black magic involved...
but i still have a question: even though the original file was .rbw (to 
avoid opening of an output text window) the result binary does open a 
DOS console when run. any way to disable that?

otherwise the resulting binary is ~5Mb (ruby 1.6). that's a lot, but 
that'll do. Zipped it's 1.5Mb.
So, great!

Then, the only problem left is the DOS console...

emmanuel

Re: [Fxruby-users] using fxruby with exerb?

[Takashi & K. S. <tk...@m3...>]

Hi Emmanuel, 

Emmanuel Touzery <emm...@wa...> wrote:
> but i still have a question: even though the original file was .
> rbw (to 
> avoid opening of an output text window) the result binary does 
> open a 
> DOS console when run. any way to disable that?

You need to specify the ruby core file for GUI. exerb has two
variations of ruby core files, one is for cui such as 
ruby168c.rbx and the other is for gui such as ruby168g.rbx.
You have to specify a core file ending with "g" in your recipe
file.

Takashi Sano

Re: [Fxruby-users] using fxruby with exerb?

[Emmanuel T. <emm...@wa...>]

Takashi & Kayoko Sano wrote:

>Hi Emmanuel, 
>
>Emmanuel Touzery <emm...@wa...> wrote:
>  
>
>>but i still have a question: even though the original file was .
>>rbw (to 
>>avoid opening of an output text window) the result binary does 
>>open a 
>>DOS console when run. any way to disable that?
>>    
>>
>
>You need to specify the ruby core file for GUI. exerb has two
>variations of ruby core files, one is for cui such as 
>ruby168c.rbx and the other is for gui such as ruby168g.rbx.
>You have to specify a core file ending with "g" in your recipe
>file.
>  
>
wonderful... thank you very much.
exerb is really very very impressive stuff.
plus, now i can finally dump ruby 1.6 and ship binaries based on 1.8 :O)

emmanuel

Re: [Fxruby-users] using fxruby with exerb?

[Cribbs, J. <Jam...@oa...>]

Emmanuel Touzery wrote:

> Hello,
>
> PS: advantages of using fxruby with exerb are numerous: simple 
> installation, and even more: transparent upgrade from eg ruby 1.6 to 
> 1.8 without the client noticing.

I would also like to recommend rubyscript2exe.  It does something 
similar to exerb.  I have used it with to create an exe for an fxruby 
script with good results.  Use it with UPX and you can get fairly small 
executables.

Jamey

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