Re: [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?
>

I dug around and think I found a way. I could modify the logic for -resource
(in ikvmc/Compiler.cs) so that if it's a directory, it will recurse down it
and add all files in there. Does that make sense? Would you accept a patch
for that?

Cheers,
Aslak


>
> Thanks a lot for a fantastic product!
>
> Cheers,
> Aslak
>
>