On 22/05/2008, at 6:22 PM, Nic Williams wrote:
If there are any lessons to be learned, and things to be added to
the newgem generator I'd love to have them.
Ahh, Hi Nic - congrats on becoming a Dad (again?)!
There were two things that tricked me:
If your extension has the name as the gem, and you have a lib/
<gemname>.rb file
that's supposed to load it, it doesn't (at least on Leopard). You need
to give the
extension and the .rb file different basenames. Perhaps on LInux it's
ok because
the shared library has a libXYZ.so name, I don't know.
The other thing, and perhaps this could go into the extconf_generator,
is that you
need to add something like this to your config/hoe.rake:
# Arrange to build the extension on install:
$hoe.spec.extensions = ['ext/wbxml/extconf.rb']
where wbxml is a wildcard for your extensions. Otherwise hoe won't
build them when
the gem gets installed.
Thanks for newgem BTW, it has saved me time several times now. This is
the first
time I've used it with a gem having a C extension.
In the area of documentation, I used pure rubyforge for source and
publishing because
I wasn't sure about how integrated the publishing is with source on
github and the
releases going to rubyforge. If it's all fine and "just works"
something should say so.
Some more clues or recipes on how to generate a source gem for most
platforms,
and a (say) Windows gem for deployment there (where folk often don't
have a
compiler installed) would be good too.
Clifford Heath.
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