From: Hans  Fugal <fugalh@...>
Date: 2005-05-08T00:09:29+09:00
Subject: FXRuby on OS X Tiger

I'm new to the OS X scene, and while I used Panther for a week or two
before getting Tiger, I never tried to get FXRuby working on Panther.

Darwin ports has rb-fxruby, which compiles and installs fine but dies
in the apparently famous way:

irb(main):002:0> require 'fox12'
dyld: NSLinkModule() error
dyld: Symbol not found: __ZTIN2FX5FXAppE
  Referenced from:
/opt/local/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8/powerpc-darwin7.9.0/fox12.bundle
  Expected in: flat namespace

Trace/BPT trap

Tiger comes with ruby 1.8.2:

$ /usr/bin/ruby --version
ruby 1.8.2 (2004-12-25) [powerpc-darwin8.0]

It does not come with Fox, so I installed it with darwin ports. Fox
works great (e.g. the calculator). I built FXRuby 1.2.6 from scratch,
which required the following:

# Could this be added to the default search path? or maybe use the
output of fox-config?
ruby install.rb config -- \
  --with-fox-include=/opt/local/include/fox-1.2\
  --with-fox-lib=/opt/local/lib
# what's up with "-arch i386" in the generated Makefile?
sed -i 's/-arch i386//g' ext/fox12/Makefile
ruby install.rb setup
sudo ruby install.rb install

I get almost exactly the same error:

$ ruby -r fox12 -e 0
dyld: NSLinkModule() error
dyld: Symbol not found: __ZTIN2FX12FXObjectListE
  Referenced from:
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/powerpc-darwin8.0/fox12.bundle
  Expected in: flat namespace

Trace/BPT trap


I'm willing to test, give ssh, whatever.

For the record, it looks like tk aqua works out of the box on Tiger.
Very nice. Unfortunately Tk is too slow for my little app (very large
drop-down menu). Now, I did install Tcl/Tk Aqua Batteries Included
before upgrading to Tiger, but I hadn't gotten ruby tk to work in
Panther, and it worked immediately upon upgrading to Tiger. So at worst
it would seem Tk is a matter of installing Tcl/Tk Aqua BI.