Hi Geoffrey, On Jun 28, 2010, at 11:43 AM, Geoffrey Grosenbach wrote:
> Can I get a clarification on what the Compilation build step does? > > GOAL: Compile a MacRuby app and remove unnecessary Ruby files in order > to achieve the smallest app size possible. > > I have a MacRuby 0.6 application built with Xcode. I'm building it > with the Compile option so I get .rbo files in my app bundle. I also > deleted all the /usr/lib/ruby Ruby files in the built app in order to > reduce the final size of the app (25 MB saved): > > https://gist.github.com/6af67e1927969b9a47c1 This looks good, although you can also pass --no_stdlib to macruby_deploy to achieve the same effect (no need to add another target) :) > My app uses Ruby's File and Dir classes, but everything else is Cocoa. > > Surprisingly, it works on several different machines, even without > MacRuby 0.6 installed. > > Do I understand correctly that the code of those files is compiled > into the .rbo files in my app? Or is it getting File and Dir from my > MRI Ruby installation? It's because File and Dir are core / builtin classes (like Array and String), they are part of libmacruby.dylib which is still in your .app bundle. You deleted the standard library. HTH, Laurent _______________________________________________ MacRuby-devel mailing list MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel
