Your welcome! Wow... UNIX has superior awesomeness. Apple has already jumped onboard. Microsoft just needs to make a UNIX-based operating system now instead of trying to be different and screwing things up.
Anyway, I'm glad I could help. But the packager should work on Windows, so... On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Roger Ostrander <[email protected]> wrote: > Interestingly enough, 'Switch to Linux' was the solution. As far as > packaging, goes, that is. Running the shoes packager in a VMed Ubuntu > resulted in a nice pristine .exe which works fine under XP SP2. > Thanks for the advice, all :) > > On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Devyn Cairns <[email protected]> wrote: >> Honestly, I would just say "Switch to Linux" but I know that sometimes >> that isn't an option. >> >> It doesn't really seem like a Shoes hiccup though... what happens if >> you package it on Windows XP SP2? >> >> On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 8:23 PM, Roger Ostrander <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> I created my program on Windows XP, SP3. I used the packager to >>> make it into a .exe and didn't have any problems during the process. >>> However, when I transfer that .exe over to my Virtual Machine and try >>> to run it, I get: >>> >>> Error in C:/Program Files/Common Files/Shoes/0.r1134/lib/shoes/shy.rb line >>> 62 >>> ! invalid distance too far back >>> >>> So I tried testing it on my computer, only to discover that the .exe >>> doesn't even work there! >>> >>> Error in C:/Program Files/Common >>> Files/Shoes/0.r1134/lib/shoes/minitar.rb line 661 >>> ! Permission denied - C:/DOCUME~1/Roger/LOCALS~1/Temp/shoes-llm.4208/./ >>> >>> Any help for either of these? I really like using Shoes as a >>> development platform, please don't make me go back to Java :) >>> >>> -- >>> Roger >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> ~devyn >> > > > > -- > Roger > -- ~devyn
