Well, you might be thinking too far. Do you really need a self-extracting archive? You can just run the $ shoes -p command, and use the package manager. And you can make an executable for any OS, no matter what OS you are on. So is there any particular issue you have with just doing that?
Subject: Re: best way to get a RUN file for my app like shoes2.run From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 17:29:49 +1200 On Tuesday 26 May 2009 03:17:19 pm _why wrote: > On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 11:00:13AM +1200, dave lilley wrote: > > aprogram myshoesapp.rb -> myshoesapp.run (and perhaps > > the win / mac versions too) > > aprogram -w myshoesapp.rb -> myshoesapp.exe > > aprogram -m myshoesapp.rb -> myshoesapp.dmg > > Right now there is only: shoes -p (which makes .exe, .dmg, .run or > .shy.) > > But I like your suggestion as well: a simple command that doesn't > pop up the packager, but just makes the executable. Kaput. > > _why @_why, what is the process of doing this on the mac? 1. use tar gzip to combine shoes & the script 2. make the archive self-extracting 3. have a auto run bash script to run shoes 4. delete all files extracted upon closure of shoes. me thinking as a noob that if it can be done on a mac then it wouldn't be too hard to copy it the process to linux (me says with no knowledge). Dave. _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail® has ever-growing storage! Don’t worry about storage limits. http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/Storage?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tutorial_Storage1_052009
