I might be stating my intention incorrectly. I have the relevant bits from poi-ruby compiled with gcj, and am attempting to wrap that myself instead of using SWIG.
As far as open office and gnumeric, I have been unable to find a fully featured discrete library for writing XLS files from ruby on linux. Would be most appreciative if you could point me to one. Andrew C. Oliver wrote: > Why? > Why not just compile with GCJ and then wrap that? > > Seems weird to go 3 techs deep... > > Also there are C utils for OLE and XLS. Check out open office and > gnumeric...use those...doesn't make sense to use C->Ruby->POI > > Jeff Swensen wrote: >> I am attempting to write my own C wrapper for the POI Ruby bindings and >> am looking for some guidance. I compiled poi4r using the swig wrapper >> only to result in a segfault which I'm unable to track down. It also >> seems that swig generates a lot of unnecessary bloat while creating the >> wrapper, which is why I decided to try to replace it with my own version >> (also partly due to some feedback from my boss who seems to dislike swig >> quite a bit). >> >> Are there any resources you could point me to for writing the ruby >> interface? I understand that at the most basic level I need to define >> all of the Java classes and public methods, but after that I'm at a >> loss. I've tried googling but I can't find any examples of writing a c >> extension to wrap compiled java for ruby. >> >> Thanks, >> Jeff >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Mailing List: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mail2.html#poi >> The Apache Jakarta Poi Project: http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/ >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailing List: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mail2.html#poi The Apache Jakarta Poi Project: http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/
