One advantage to mkmf and extconf.rb (that's the file that you actually run through macruby to generate a Makefile) is that it can take care of most of the difficult parts of generating a Makefile for you (like determining header locations and library availability, etc.). Finding good documentation on mkmf can be a bit tricky, but you might try starting with the official library docs here: http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/mkmf/rdoc/index.html
- Josh On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 8:04 PM, Julien Jassaud <sojasta...@gmail.com>wrote: > Joshua, > > Thanks for your prompt answer. I'll look into both mkmf and ControlTower. > This is totally new territory for me. Exciting ! > > Julien > > My suggestion would be to forgo using XCode to build the Obj-C extension, > and instead use mkmf like you would with any other Ruby C-extension. Then > you can just add a script build stage to your project. If you want to see an > example of a MacRuby project with an Obj-C extension, take a look at > ControlTower. If you have any other questions, ask! > > Cheers, > > Josh > > On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 5:29 PM, Julien Jassaud <sojasta...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> A while back I tried to port some ObjC examples to MacRuby ( >> github.com/sojastar/Some-MacRuby-sample-code ). I had to leave parts >> dealing with C strings in an ObjC bundle that is required in the MacRuby >> code. The ported samples' building process was a bit complicated with XCode >> 3 : >> >> 1) clone from github >> 2) run the ObjC bundle Makefile. The Makefile also copied the compiled >> bundle at the proper location in the build directory. >> 3) build the project in XCode >> >> An inelegant process but it was working fine. >> >> Now that XCode 4 adds some random string to the build directory's name I >> don't know how to point the Makefile to the proper location for copying the >> bundle. So my question is : what is good practice when it comes to ObjC >> bundles and MacRuby in XCode 4 ? Is there a way to automate the whole bundle >> build / copy process ? I tried to modify the "Compile" scheme's "Build" step >> by adding a pre-action script to it but I don't really know what to put in >> it. I couldn't even run the Makefile from it. >> >> Thanks, >> Julien Jassaud >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MacRuby-devel mailing list >> MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org >> http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel >> > > _______________________________________________ > MacRuby-devel mailing list > MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel > > > > _______________________________________________ > MacRuby-devel mailing list > MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel > >
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