Re: [Rubycocoa-talk] Self-contained .app bundle?

[Chris T. <cj...@cj...>]

On Apr 7, 2004, at 11:33 AM, Phil Tomson wrote:

> On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, John Platte wrote:
>
>> It looks like it's possible to create a completely self-contained .app
>> bundle that contains Ruby on-board. These pages suggest that libruby
>> and RubyCocoa could live in an app bundle's Contents/Frameworks
>> directory:
>>
>> * http://www.imasy.or.jp/~hisa/mac/rubycocoa/changelog.html
>> * http://cocoadevcentral.com/articles/000042.php
>> * http://qin.laya.com/tech_coding_help/dylib_linking.html
>>
>> Can folks on this list contribute toward a recipe for building the 
>> Ruby
>> and RubyCocoa dylibs appropriately? I will collect responses on Ruby
>> Garden at
>>
>> http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?BundleRubyExecutableInMacOSX
>>
>
> I don't have anything to contribute yet, but I am very eager to learn 
> how
> to do this.  I would like to develop RubyCocoa apps and be able to
> distribute them to others who may not have the RubyCocoa bindings (or 
> may
> not have the latest version of Ruby installed).

It goes something like this:

Start by getting the dylibs linked correctly, then link the executable 
against them, and then copy them to the executable.

Linking the libraries:
Set the install name of RubyCocoa.framework to 
"@executable_path/../Frameworks".
Set the install name of libruby.dylib to "@executable_path/".

Copying:
Copy the built libruby.dylib into /YourApp.app/Contents/MacOS/
And copy the built RubyCocoa.framework into 
/YourApp.app/Contents/Frameworks/
You can do this easily in Xcode by adding a couple of Copy Files build 
phases to your target.

Chris