From: Bill Kelly <billk@...>
Date: 2005-06-24T09:27:05+09:00
Subject: Re: setup.rb question

From: "Timothy Hunter" <cyclists@nc.rr.com>
>
> setup.rb support a set of 8 "hooks" that you might be able to leverage. 
> You can create a hook to run before or after each of setup's config, 
> setup, install, and clean steps. Each hook is just a fragment of Ruby 
> code that setup runs if it's present. Setup defines a few APIs that the 
> hook code can use to find out about the configuration. 
> (http://i.loveruby.net/en/man/setup/hookapi.html)
> 
> Just thinking out loud, maybe you could put the .dll somewhere other 
> than bin (to keep setup from automatically installing it) and then 
> create a post-install hook that copied the .dll only for Windows installs.

Cool, thanks!

It was as simple as creating a post-install.rb containing:

case RUBY_PLATFORM
when /mswin32/
  install "./my/win32/library.dll", config('bindir'), 0555
end

=D


Thanks,

Bill