So there is mainly Ocra and Ruby2exe. But Ruby2exe doesn't work with 1.9.

My problem with ocra is that, my firewall considers what the exe extract, as a new apllication every time , blocking it's execution.
Any tips to overcome this ? Also the launch time is so long compared with the non packaged version.

Also , this has nothing to do with the thread, but I would like to request an "hardware accelerated" (I mean fast as the desktop cursor) mouse cursor independant from the game window.

Well, Ruby[Script]2Exe (is there a difference with or without 'script'?) and Ocra both extract the executable.. the behaviour should be the same.

ickylevel:

> Also , this has nothing to do with the thread, but
> I would like to request an "hardware accelerated"
> (I mean fast as the desktop cursor) mouse cursor
> independant from the game window.

C'est ne pas possible

Surprisingly the behaviour is not the same. With an older game  with ruby2exe my firewall don't get mad.

The cursor thing is a windows only thing or something ? Cause some other libraries have it. Anyway...

Weirdddd

I think Gosu or OpenGL strips the mouse by default, to that we can customize it for our games. Hm.. Now I think about it, there might be some function somewhere in some library Gosu uses that re-enables the OS-mouse. Hmm, this could actually prove useful for applications made with Gosu.

Edit: maybe RubyScript2Exe keeps extracting to a folder with the same name, and while Ocra generates a random name

Interesting...

> I think Gosu or OpenGL strips the mouse by default,

It's Gosu, and I have agreed to make it optional in a later version of Gosu ;)

And would it be possible to set the cursor image by any way (by recompiling at worst) ?

I don't think so. The code to get an empty cursor on X11 looks fragile and scary enough to me as it is. Well-tested contributions are welcome though. ;)