From: Kaspar Schiess <eule@...>
Date: 2005-06-20T16:22:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby/Java Bridge running on Windows

Hi there, 

> I've seen there are 3 Ruby/Java bridge projects: RJava (very obsolete),
> RJB, RJNI (most up to date) available, but all of them come in source
> code with native Ruby extensions that need to be compiled on the target
> platform.
I have successfully used RJB, although it still has some trouble using 
methods with complicated signatures. I was thinking of fixing that at some 
point, but didn't get very far. 

> I've tried compiling all of them under Windows XP with Visual C++ with
> no luck so far. They cannot find the Java library (java.dll) or the JNI
> include file (jni.h), which are all available and with paths properly
> configured.
If all was well configured, it would just have worked, wouldn't it ? ;) 
Have you also compiled Ruby with that same configuration ? I remember 
tweaking some paths while compiling rjb, but having compiled your ruby 
distro with the same compiler is the first precondition. 

And there are certainly some people doing Ruby on windows, and there is 
something like an A-Team, except we're hard to contact ;). 

kaspar
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