Thanks Luis. I got the gem to build automatically, but the
shared library load path doesn't seem to be set correctly.
The require_paths in the gemspec is ["lib", "ext/wbxml"],
but the .bundle built on MacOSX doesn't load when the
.rb in the lib directory says "require 'wbxml.so'".
Any idea what the story is here?
If anyone wants to check it out, it's the wbxml project on
RubyForge. You'll need libwbxml-dev (or port install wbxml2)
to build it.
The answer to getting the gem to build extensions on install
was to modify the config/hoe.rb generated by "newgem", adding
# Arrange to build the extension on install:
$hoe.spec.extensions = ['ext/wbxml/extconf.rb']
Clifford Heath.
On 22/05/2008, at 11:09 AM, Luis Lavena wrote:
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 9:55 PM, Clifford Heath
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I've used newgem to build a gem that's a simple wrapper for the wbxml
library,
and I'm not sure how to publish it. My Manifest includes the ext
files,
including
extconf.rb, but since newgem & hoe build the gemspec file on the
fly, I
haven't
been able to work out how to arrange for the extension to be built on
install.
Can someone give me some pointers please? The reference is too
detailed,
I'm looking for a recipe if possible.
You need to tweak somehow the spec Hoe generates inside the Hoe.new
do...end block.
AFAIK, right now Hoe is not able to handle normal C extensions, only
inlined ones (the ones generated via RubyInline).
I think Aslak Hellesoy published something related to this subject:
http://blog.aslakhellesoy.com/2008/3/30/ruby-usb-gems
Also, what support does gems provide for the naming procedure for
binary
files? If I want to publish platform-specific binary gems in
addition to the
source
version, what's the procedure?
rubygems itself append the platform specific to the end part of the
filename it generates:
mygem-1.1.1-i386-mingw32.gem
HTH,
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