Building a stand-alone Jekyll for windows

build.sh

# gem install ocra
# hitimes 1.2.2 does not work on windows, force the pure ruby version
# gem install hitimes --platform ruby

ocra --gem-all --gemfile Gemfile jekyll

Gemfile

source 'https://rubygems.org'

gem 'jekyll'
gem 'wdm', '>= 0.1.0'
gem 'hitimes', :platforms => :ruby # not sure if this works, had to install the pure ruby version manually (see build.sh)

jekyll

#!c:/Ruby22/bin/ruby.exe
#
# This file was generated by RubyGems.
#
# The application 'jekyll' is installed as part of a gem, and
# this file is here to facilitate running it.
#

# manually require some gems that are not correctly imported
require 'rubygems'
require 'fiber'
gem 'wdm'
require 'webrick'
require 'find'

version = ">= 0"

if ARGV.first
  str = ARGV.first
  str = str.dup.force_encoding("BINARY") if str.respond_to? :force_encoding
  if str =~ /\A_(.*)_\z/ and Gem::Version.correct?($1) then
    version = $1
    ARGV.shift
  end
end

gem 'jekyll', version
load Gem.bin_path('jekyll', 'jekyll', version)