[Ikvm-developers] Adding many resources with ikvmc

[aslak h. <asl...@gm...>]

Hi there,

After seeing Jeroen's excellent presentation on IKVM at the Roots conference
in Bergen yesterday I decided to package JRuby for IKVM. In order to reduce
JRubys' startup time I need to ikvmc jruby-complete.jar. That actually
reduced startup time from 30 secs to about 2. Good!

However, If I try to run ruby code that tries to load some of the Ruby
standard library files I run into problems.

jruby-complete.jar bundles the Ruby standard libraries as a lot of .rb files
located under /META-INF/jruby.home and it seems that these files are not
automatically included in the generated jruby-complete.exe. JRuby loads
these with plain old getClass().getResource().

I know there is a -resource flag I can pass to ikvmc, but it doesn't seem to
work with directories. It's unpractical to enumerate all the files to
include - there are hundreds of them.

Any advice on how to package up all the .rb resources inside the exe? Is
there a switch I don't know about or would this require a change to ikvmc?
If a change is needed, do you have any pointers on where I can start
looking?

Thanks a lot for a fantastic product!

Cheers,
Aslak