From: Michal 'hramrach' Suchanek <hramrach@...>
Date: 2004-09-30T17:11:55+09:00
Subject: Re: ruboids (on mac os) - singleton instance() returns nil?

On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 10:10:03AM +0900, Richard Dale wrote:
> Michal 'hramrach' Suchanek wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 01:15:04AM +0900, Richard Dale wrote:
> >> Richard Dale wrote:
> >> 
> >> > QtRuby uses method_missing to trap method calls and redirect them to
> >> > the Smoke library. So I wonder if Singleton interferes with
> >> > method_missing in some way.
> >> 
> >> I've just restored the Singleton stuff, and it works fine. So I think the
> >> Singleton error was actually a problem with the code only being half
> >> ported from Ruby/Qt to QtRuby.
> > They said qtruby on the ruboids website unless I misread it. But the
> > specification of requirements was very vague.
> > 
> > I must have done something wrong when compiling the extension.
> > I first compiled everything with autoconf and it did not work because I
> > was missing -lstdc++, so I added that.
> > And the result was the broken singleton.
> > 
> > Reading about the compilation once again I decided to try the extconf.rb
> > stuff but now Qt.rb gets installed as Qt/Qt so I have to modify the
> > included examples to work (I tried hello only).
> I think that is another problem with the Mac OS X build - Qt.rb should be
> installed at the top level along with qtruby.bundle, and qtruby.rb
> installed in Qt/qtruby.rb.
hehe, I tried running the ruboids I have on the correct display and the
singleton is still broken. So there is not much difference wrt the build
system used to compile the extension.
> 
> > But now the singleton in ruboids works. I get the proper error message I
> > do not have GLX (which I currently do not) and nothing else.
> > 
> > I am sorry I caused so much trouble by miscompiling the extension.
> > But it would be much clearer what to do if the stuff expanded into two
> > directories, one handled by automake and the other by extconf.
> > 
> > I will look at the other stuff you sent me tomorrow, it is quite late
> > here already.
> No problem. I've added it to the QtRuby code examples now in
> qtruby/rubylib/examples/ruboids. It's a really good OpenGL/Qt::GL* widgets
> example, and there wasn't one before. I've also added you exconf.rb change
> and corrected the README.build file about Mac OS X.
> 
--- /Users/hramrach/qtruby-cvs/configure.in.in  Mon Sep 27 16:45:43 2004
+++ qtruby-cvs/configure.in.in  Sat Jun 19 03:47:45 2004
@@ -28,4 +28,5 @@
 AC_PATH_QT()
 AC_SUBST(all_includes)
 AC_SUBST(all_libraries)
+AC_SUBST(CONF_FILES)
 
Thanks

Michal Suchanek