From: Jeff Mitchell <quixoticsycophant@...>
Date: 2004-06-17T11:35:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Extension which depends on another extension

--- nobu.nokada@softhome.net wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> At Thu, 17 Jun 2004 10:46:25 +0900,
> Jeff Mitchell wrote in [ruby-talk:103890]:
> > I have two extensions, ext_x.so and ext_y.so.  ext_y.so references a
> > few functions defined in ext_x.so.
> 
> Such usage is not guaranteed on all platforms.

Yes I didn't realize that until now.  It makes sense, since there is no
ext/socket/socket.h for example.

> > Is there something I'm missing, or is it really going to be this hard?
> > ext_x.so should remain independent.  As a last resort, I suppose I
> > could combine the two extensions into one, but that would be pretty
> > messy.  In fact, I have three other extensions which require ext_x.so.
> 
> If I were you, I'd extract common portion to another shared
> library, or define methods instead of direct references.

Aha, they are defined as ruby methods already but for some reason I didn't
think to call them with rb_funcall.  Thanks.




	
		
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